Quotes About Ecosystem

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Pick one tree; describe it, if you will, in terms of what it destroys, what it defies, and what it does not accomplish, and you have a monster of greedy roots and irresistible momentum that eats the light of other plants, their nutrients, their air. But that is not the truth of the tree. That is not the whole truth when the thing is seen as part of nature, and by nature I mean nothing sacred, I mean only the full tapestry, Akasha. I mean only the larger thing which embraces all.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

Subject has the variety of life.

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

A holistic, habitat-based approach to human health is long overdue.

Virtually every abductee receives information about the destruction of the earth's ecosystem and feels compelled to do something about

Today, cardinal-flower is a legally protected species and should never be picked or removed from the wild.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

Now we can rediscover these natural treasures, restoring the ecology to create a greener environment

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.