Quotes About Ecosystem

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

As an affirmation of life, even a predator is a welcome sight.

Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.

The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin's nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself.

One little known fact: The water that spouts out of a whale's blowhole in such a picturesque way reeks like the most toxic fart imaginable.

In the annals of bad ideas, this is one for the hall of fame: trawling giant nets through water thousands of feet deep to catch thumb-size fish and wads of gelatinous tissue that nobody wants to eat, but that we could grind up to feed the farmed fish we're now being forced to breed because of our previous indiscriminate trawling with giant nets.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

An immaculate garden is a hostile place to most wildlife. Beautifully weeded borders, with every fallen leaf and twig gathered and disposed of, hedges kept constantly crisp and grass mown to within a fraction of its life may make a certain sort of gardener glow with pride but will provide little comfort for most of our birds, mammals and insects.

magpies, jays, sparrowhawks, kestrels, all

a little, would have existed to keep animals

Populations of songbirds like the pied flycatcher, meanwhile, are collapsing in some parts of Europe because the caterpillars that parents depend upon to feed their young are hatching too early.

Carson's writing inspired a new, much more radical generation of environmentalists to see themselves as part of a fragile planetary ecosystem rather than as its engineers or mechanics, giving birth to the field of Ecological Economics. It was in this context that the underlying logic of extractivism—that there would always be more earth for us to consume—began to be forcefully challenged within the mainstream.

there has been a dramatic decrease in birth and survival rates of caribou calves. It seems that rising temperatures have changed the growing patterns of plants that are the source of critical energy for caribou calves, as well as for their mothers during reproduction and lactation.

The future looks rosy for West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne viruses that follow it to the New World. That's because the future is going to be warm and wet. Carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are raising the average temperature in the United States.

there was no need to injure the shrubs, since we had already injured the quail.