Biodiversity Quote by Thomas Lovejoy

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World…

— Thomas Lovejoy

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

— Thomas Lovejoy

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

— Levi Strauss

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

— Carl Linnaeus

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

— Charles Darwin

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

We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.

— Pamela A. Matson

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

“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

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

Man has created death.

— William Butler Yeats

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