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Quotes About Ecosystem

When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.
~ Larry McMurtry
Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Our planet has been misnamed; it is the ocean planet.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.
~ Ted Danson
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
~ Carl Safina
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
~ Carl Safina
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
~ G. Tyler Miller
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
~ Rene Dubos
Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.
~ Pearl Zhu, Digital Master
How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?
~ William Longgood
You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.
~ Judi Bari
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
~ Ernest A. Fortin
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
~ Adam Zagajewski
We endanger species.
~ Alan Dean Foster
You may come to believe that the world cannot survive without your interference, while the truth is that the world cannot survive your arrogant interference.
~ Derrick Jensen
The notion of karma is unique to Indian thought. No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap." The assumption then is that if we sow good deeds, we will reap good rewards. But who decides what action is good or bad? The desire to qualify an action, and its consequence, as good or bad, right or wrong, is a peculiarly human trait. Nature does not do so.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
A king uses his power to serve people and create an ecosystem where people can outgrow hunger and fear. When a king uses his power to dominate those around him, it reveals the king has not outgrown his hunger and fear; he is not yet Ram. Likewise, a king's agent uses his power to serve his master. When a king's agent uses his power to dominate those around him, it reveals he has not outgrown his hunger and fear; he is not yet Hanuman.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family. The debt we owe them is too big to ever repay.
~ Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe.
~ Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act.
~ Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Save the Earth...it's the only planet with chocolate
~ Dianne Castell
it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have it used upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it
~ Don Marquis