Quotes About Ecosystem

Across the continent since Europeans first arrived, 92 per cent of old-growth forest has been destroyed. The

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Worms appeared on Earth more than six hundred million years ago. They were soft, small-bodied creatures that fed on nutrients at the bottom of the sea. But they were different from anything that had come before because they had heads with mouths and primitive brains. Also new were there guts and organs, arteries and veins. Today there are so many worms in the world that even if every other substance were to disappear from Earth the shape of our planet would still be outlined by them.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

three hundred trout are required to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, which must consume 27 million grasshoppers, which live off of 1,000 tons of grass."10