Quotes About Ecosystem

bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.

My favorite animal on the Galapagos is the Galapagos Marine Iguana. The first rule of iguana-dom is that iguanas hate the water, yet somehow, these poor iguanas landed there and had to figure it out.

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

I have an aquarium full of fish and some Mexican walking fish.

Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

A human being is made up of only non-human elements.

A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans. If there is to be any true progress, then the entire life community must progress.

The point in Yalbury Wood which abutted on the end of Geoffrey Day's premises was closed with an ancient tree, horizontally of enormous extent ,though having no great pretensions to height. Many hundreds of birds had been born amidst the boughs of this single tree: tribes of rabbits and hares had nibbled at it's bark from year to year; quaint tufts of fungi had sprung from the cavities of it's forks; and countless families of moles and earthworms had crept about its roots.

Equus przewalskii—the Przewalskii

We are part of the natural environment; we grow out of it in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean or a tree grows in the forest.

The problem with our current societal eco-systems is the broken feedback loop between the parts and the whole. Theory U offers a method for relinking the parts and the whole by making it possible for the system to sense and see itself. When that happens, the collective consciousness begins to shift from ego-system awareness to eco-system awareness—from a silo view to a systems view.

But you can create conditions that allow a deeper alchemy to work—that is, conditions that help leaders in a system to broaden and deepen their view of the system from ego to eco, from "me" to

and we'll all be martialed to the task of protecting some obscure species of newt from the ravages of a predatory industrial giant bent on planting a fetid factory on the little amphibian's breeding ground.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world.

What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?

the Earth in general can only support so much animal life, and for every aditional pound of human beings and his animal favorites, a pound of other animal life must disappear.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

The environment is everything that isn't me.