Ecosystems Quotes

134 quotes by 111 authors

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. — Martha Beck
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
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend. — William H. Schlesinger
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability… — Achim Steiner
No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems… — 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
For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. — Leonardo DiCaprio
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… — Chris Packham
If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if… — David Attenborough
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. — Jonas Salk
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in… — Gerald Durrell
The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on. — Kate Sheppard

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