Quotes About Ecosystem

The wolf is living for the earth.

when wolves have been protected, "multi-generational packs" have developed. "These," he says, "have a deep bench.

The only way we can reduce the number of these endangered species is to improve and provide additional habitat where they can live and reproduce.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.

Every species has its pub.

In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.

The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world's great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on the role they play in providing a quarter of the world's oxygen, a fifth of fresh water, and 60 percent of its species.

For most people, carp isn't just garbage fish - it's an invasive species.

The reality of our world today is not every species can be left in the wild.

The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.