Quotes About Ecosystem

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

We have to protect the bees. If we kill the insects and the bees disappear, we're doomed. The balance is delicate and the health of the plants and animals and consumers is... Am I putting you to sleep?

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

They were graceful. It looked like they were pollinating flowers

You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that's not enough either. If there's too much poison around. We're talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anyways, I'd pick raven. A raven can kill, but will he eat garbage? Yes. He will.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans.

The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.

The earth will support anything that supports life.

Prenatal care means taking care of water, fish, and glaciers.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Clear-cutting was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend, David said. It just takes a little surgery to do it.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

One in every four species of mammals (1,141 of the 5,487 mammalian species on Earth) is threatened with extinction.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.