Quotes About Ecosystem

After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.

When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools.

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap.

Meat is complicated. We have to be thoughtful about the ecosystem that we're living in and not to destroy it because of the instant gratification and the demand of others.

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.

An oyster tastes good because at one spot in the natural world, something went right. A great oyster is an estuary flashing a thumbs-up sign.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed?

he tiger is the very soul of India,&when the last tiger has gone,so will the soul of the country.

birds, and insects.

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

When the lion feeds, many animals eat.

Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But

Think of how many people have died, and how many more animals have been killed and eaten by humans and each other, yet the Earth is not overflowing with corpses. Life continually renews itself. * * *

Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?

Every breath we inhale comes from nature; kill it and we kill ourselves.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.