Quotes About Ecosystem

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, diesen Welten nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.

off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. —PARDOT KYNES, FIRST PLANETOLOGIST OF ARRAKIS

Maker—their word for worm

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.

extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal

Cómo es posible que un planeta pueda convertirse en un Edén sin dinero? —¿De qué os sirve el dinero si no os procura los servicios que necesitáis? —preguntó a su vez Kynes.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life," his father said. "Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.

Cuanta más vida hay en un sistema, mayor es la cantidad de nichos que existen para preservar esta vida

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem,' Kynes said, 'is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem," Kynes said, "is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.

The sandtrout," he repeated, "was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet . . . and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state.

You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

Crocodiles are an apex predator and crucial to the ecosystem, keeping waterways and wetlands healthy. Crocodiles eradicate the weak, sick, and injured wildlife, leaving only the healthy to prosper.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.