Quotes About Ecosystem

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

There is so much life underneath the water that we dont know about.

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future.

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

We're putting everything in the ocean on a plastic diet.

There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end point for this wild trash: the greatest future, the biggest surface, the deepest chasm, the broadest desert and the largest burial ground on the planet. It's the ocean.

No matter where you are, there's no getting over it, no getting away from it," he has said. "It's a plastic ocean now … We're putting everything in the ocean on a plastic diet.

Half the oxygen we breathe emanates from microscopic phytoplankton sloshing around the surface of the ocean. After literally billions of years of performing that essential, priceless service, those vital organisms now must swim and feed and survive in a sea of plastic soup. Figuring out what's up with those organisms is, Goldstein suggests, a pretty vital matter. If we are inadvertently killing them off, the result could be far less visible, but even more devastating, than deforestation.

The human impact on biodiversity, to put the matter as briefly as possible, is an attack on ourselves.

animals of the land environment are dominated by species with the most complex social systems.

A typical battlefield of this struggle is Hawaii, America's most deceptively beautiful state. For most residents and visitors, it seems an unspoiled island paradise. In actuality it is a killing field of biological diversity. When

For every problem in a given discipline of science, there exists a species or other entity or phenomenon ideal for its solution. (Example: a kind of mollusk, Aplysia, proved ideal for exploring the cellular base of memory.) Conversely, for every species or other entity or phenomenon, there exist important problems for the solution of which it is ideally suited. (Example: bats were logical for the discovery of sonar.)