Quotes About Ecosystem

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

Trees cause pollution.

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning.

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree.

A single tree doesn't make a forest.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site!

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.

They can't complain to the police, they say, because their cows roam the streets. The police will only take down an FIR (First Information Report) and register a case if cows are stolen from within someone's property. So these farmers buy Alsatian dogs to guard the cows. They buy roosters to wake them up at dawn for the milking; and then buy hens to give the rooster something to do. Within the compound of an urban dairy farmer lies an entire ecosystem.

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.