Around the world Quote by Chris D. Thomas

Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate…

— Cary Fowler

“food chain - the vitally important system by which matter from soil and air passes through plants and animals and back to soil and…

— Richard M. Ketchum

Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when…

— Michael Pollan

“We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are…

— Charles Darwin

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

— E. O. Wilson

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we…

— Louise Fresco

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the next generation…

— Steven R. Gundry

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus…

— Murray Bookchin

Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants…

— Michael Pollan

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes…

— David Suzuki

“The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditisation more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing