Quotes About Ecosystem

This degree of specialization is not expected unless it takes some practice to drive fish well. It is not clear why certain dolphins become specialized like this—they don't obviously seem to get more fish and surely use more energy herding than do their comrades, waiting for their food to arrive.

I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to not touch coral, to prevent damaging it.

My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.

Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

Whether it's space tourism or really interesting missions to the moon or Mars, you really need a healthy capital ecosystem to make that happen. Nation states and governments have the control, but unless the financing is sustainable, it's hard to really keep them on that.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

The world's oceans are littered with trillions of pieces of plastic - bottles, bags, toys, fishing nets and more, mostly in tiny particles - and now this seaborne junk is making its way into the Arctic.

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.