Quotes About Ecosystem

Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

Any ICO going forward that doesn't use a 'Ticketmaster-style' queueing engine is clearly trying to ruin the ecosystem.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working to help make the prairie nice.

by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants, the air and the water. We did not notice the effect of our pollution on whatever walked over it, ran across it, climbed up it, flew through it, or swam in it. Now we notice that harming other constituents of our planetary system brings harm to ourselves.

Spiders are not insects, but in a war they will side with the insects.

We're organisms; we're conceived, we're born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria.

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

In fact, there are half as many wild animals on the planet as there were in 1970, an awesome and mostly unnoticed silencing.

In the Sea of Japan, 500 million Nomurai jellyfish—each more than two meters in diameter—are clogging fishing nets; a region of the Bering Sea is so full of jellies that it's been renamed "Slime Bank." "Jellyfish grow faster and produce more young in warmer waters," one researcher explained.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

Without trees, we cannot inhabit the earth.

Animals are the messengers of the tree, and trees the gardens of animals. Life depends upon life. All forces, all elements, all life forms are the biomass of the tree.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

He knew that sick land meant a sick society, that the loss of biodiversity meant the end of life

Plowing turns the world upside down. Overgrazing and undergrazing create deserts. Chemical fertilizers make the farm field an addict.

the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.

Terrestrial mammals may be ecosystem-controlling "keystone species," like elephants, or ecosystem engineers, like beavers. Well before humans, mammals dominated much of the land. They