Destruction Quote by Johan Rockstrom

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

— Thomas Eisner

“Biodiversity is a result of the process of evolution, and it is also a safety net that helps keep that process going. In order…

— Bill Nye

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save…

— E. O. Wilson

“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

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs…

— Donella Meadows

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have…

— Kofi Annan

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its…

— E. O. Wilson

It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

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

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

— David Foreman

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

— Klaus Topfer

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer