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“Compared to forest or aquatic ecosystems, grassland is unstable. It requires rather precise geological and climatic conditions, and if these conditions are not maintained--if…

— David Rains Wallace

“grasslands, grazing mammals, and pack-hunting predators evolved together. So if domestic herbivores can be managed such that their behavior mimics that of their wild…

— Judith D. Schwartz

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

— James Lovelock

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

— Ellsworth Huntington

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability…

— Frank Herbert

“Allan Savory’s belief that drought and floods are man-made and therefore not inevitable opens the way for a different response. With this principle in…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two…

— Stuart L. Hart

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie…

— Stephen Kinzer

Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and…

— David Holmgren

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the…

— Petra Kelly

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast scale. The…

— George Monbiot

We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan