Quotes About Ecosystem

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?

There are 2, 500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.