Ecosystems Quotes

134 quotes by 111 authors

Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts… — Will Steffen
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
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see… — James Hansen
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… — Alex Bruce
Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's… — Fred Krupp
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not… — Richard Heinberg
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in… — Ken Wilber
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air… — E. O. Wilson
Our competitors arenâ€™t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. — Stephen Elop
As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic… — Greg Walden
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
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment… — E. O. Wilson
I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our… — E. O. Wilson
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
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious… — Bill Mollison
A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these… — George Schaller
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and… — Ismail Serageldin

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