Quotes About Ecosystem

Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called "the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures," and that they're willing to make sacrifices on those creatures' behalf.

it has since been reduced to around five thousand animals.

Such is the economy of nature," he wrote, "that no instance can be produced of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken.

If evolution works the way it usually does," Silman said, "then the extinction scenario—we don't call it extinction, we talk about it as 'biotic attrition,' a nice euphemism—well, it starts to look apocalyptic.

Such is the pain the loss of a single species causes

LIKE the Jews, the corals of the Great Barrier Reef observe a lunar calendar.

living in four parks in the state of Assam. A hundred years ago, in Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million; it has since been reduced to around five thousand animals.

Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.

recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million.

number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago

When a mass extinction occurs, it takes out the weak and also lays low the strong.

we're willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos

Then the frogs around El Valle started to disappear.

The Great Barrier Reef extends, discontinuously, for more than fifteen hundred miles, and in some places it is five hundred feet thick. By the scale of reefs, the pyramids at Giza are kiddie blocks. The way corals

ante el cambio climático, aunque fuera un cambio climático natural, la actividad humana ha creado una carrera de obstáculos para la dispersión de la biodiversidad

a third of them to be in danger of extinction, largely as a result of rising ocean temperatures.

Lowland gorillas have declined even faster;

in the face of climatic change, even natural climatic change, human activity has created an obstacle course for the dispersal of biodiversity

Ocean acidification is sometimes referred to as global warming's "equally evil twin.

Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

It's just absolute hubris and so arrogant to think that we can survive without everything else. We come from this planet." --- Paul Hardisty, head of the Institute that runs SeaSim in Australia

If we one day will know that some freak mutation made the human insanity and exploration thing possible, it will be amazing to think that it was this little inversion on this chromosome that made all this happen and changed the whole ecosystem of the planet and made us dominate everything," he said at one point. At another, he said, "We are crazy in some way. What drives it? That I would really like to understand. That would be really, really cool to know." *

Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed, and they remained in that state for at least half a million, and perhaps as many as several million, years. (The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")

Coral sex is a rare and amazing sight.