Quotes About Ecosystem

If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs little help from humans.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

I was in Mexico a couple of weeks ago," Avi says. "They have plastic forests there!" "What does that mean?" "Downwind of the city, the trees sort of comb the plastic shopping bags out of the air. They get totally covered with them. The trees die because light and air can't get through to the leaves. But they remain standing, totally encased in fluttering, ragged plastic, all different colors.

The biggest single-celled organisms in the world. They live beneath the Antarctic ice. And as they grow, they take grains of sand from their environment and glue them together to form hard outer skins.

vehicles were as likely to move about on legs as wheels, so no one really cared about bumps in pavement. Modern utilities ran underground. Even had those things not been the case, the tax base wasn't there to support all those arborists and pavers. So the trees—all of them deciduous imports from the East Coast or Europe—had been doing as they pleased for decades. And what

Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.

I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in one centimeter of my colon, than the number of people who have ever existed in the world. That kind of information makes you think twice about who–or what–is actually in charge.

If all the molecules on Earth were stacked on each other end-to-end, everything on Earth would die.

Between 1 and 10 quadrillion ants live on (and in) Earth

A fontos, ám ellentmondásos felvetés azt állítja, hogy a Földön található fajok egy kollektív organizmust alkotnak, ami folyamatosan (ám akaratlanul) úgy szabályozza a bolygó atmoszférájának összetételét és klímáját, hogy az biztosítsa az élet feltételeit – és ezzel a folyékony víz jelenlétét.

Nature moves towards balance.

The natural world is not indestructible.

Members of Congress would no doubt have been furious had they learned that DARPA—ostensibly a defense agency—was wining and dining professors of computer science as they theorized about chip design. But it was efforts like these that shrank transistors, discovered new uses for semiconductors, drove new customers to buy them, and funded the subsequent generation of smaller transistors. When it came to semiconductor design, no country in the world had a better innovation ecosystem.

Listen to it… The swamp has its own Sound. Its own rhythm.

It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers