Quotes About Ecosystem

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

Trees are selfless, so all species thrive. If they were like humans, the world wouldn't survive.

The Nature is our Balance.

He also points out the butterflies and bees, the pollinators with wagging tongues, spreading rumors from one plant to another.

Some things ought to exist outside capitalism, and wildness should be one of them.

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work.

A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it

A hydroid colony no bigger than can be contained in one's cupped hands may be almost a whole universe in itself - a complete unit of life, with possibly dozens of units in one tide pool.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend. You cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say you cannot have game and hate predators. The land is one organism.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.