Biodiversity Quote by E. O. Wilson Download Open image ““A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.”” — E. O. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biodiversity Biology Microcosms Natural history Travel Trees
“The leaves of this enormous tree, those are the million places where life lives and things happen and creatures come and go.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“This tree wishes you no harm. God around it in peace. You are hurting yourself…The traveling was a little easier after that, knowing it… — Don Berry Copy Share Image
“The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“When you are like the tree, there is oneness with the Earth, Sun and Moon, but still steadfast in your purpose.” — Michelle D. Rosado Copy Share Image
“The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they’re just determined to chase impossible things. And most… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“The Tree of Life is really all about the understanding that we are all dependent upon each other.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The tree you behold, so fresh and alive, whose fruit seems to come without delay, has in reality been patiently maturing for countless years… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“No tree lives without dying, no tree dies without touching the sky.” — Alfrredo Navarro Salanga Copy Share Image
“When a tree is lost, it can return to its roots to find it's routes.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“I often imagine what our lives would be like without trees. We won't even dwell on the fact that our atmosphere would be sorely… — Alain Baraton Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily… — Indur M. Goklany Copy Share Image
The thing that I think about most often is the loss of biodiversity. We talk about these food issues so often with concern to… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get along without… — Sylvia A. Earle Copy Share Image
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has… — Tim Benton Copy Share Image
