Ecosystem Quotes

102 quotes by 87 authors

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in… — Yvon Chouinard
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually… — Joel Sartore
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,… — Steven Rose
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning… — Frances Ford Seymour
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what… — Terence McKenna
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. — Maude Barlow
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular… — Fritjof Capra
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.… — E. O. Wilson
We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to… — Pope John Paul II
There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure… — Unknown Author
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. — Jonas Salk
We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into… — Sylvia Earle
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the… — Boris Johnson
It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against… — Unknown Author
Our competitors arenâ€™t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. — Stephen Elop
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of… — Murray Bookchin
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of… — Carl Safina

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