Astonishing Quote by Sylvia Earle

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.

— Nikhil Advani

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

A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed…

— Leonard Sweet

No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many…

— E. O. Wilson

“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global…

— Daniel Quinn

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands…

— Gary Larson

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

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating…

— Cory Doctorow

In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means…

— Freeman Dyson

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

— Sylvia Earle

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other…

— Paul Hawken

As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a…

— David Grinspoon