Quotes About Ecosystem

Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

Being near a water source can determine lives, livelihoods and prosperity.

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.

The simple fact that half of the oxygen that we breathe is produced by the oceans should be reason enough to mobilize around the issue of better protecting our oceans.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

The top 20 centimeters of soil is all that stands between us and extinction.

Many of the animals that are traditionally seen as vermin are my life's fascination.

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

A lot of fish that live in the sea, they are your normal, nice, pretty, silvery, shiny fish.

Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

If commercial fishing were excluded from large areas of the sea, the total catch would be likely, paradoxically, to rise, due to what biologists call the spillover effect.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

With the influx of available cryptocapital that has become widely accessible, it's going to be interesting to watch what happens next, because companies now have the luxury of raising enough money to build simultaneously a product, a company, and an ecosystem.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.