Quotes About Ecosystem

The big fish ate the little and

The big fish ate the little and that was how it worked. To me that

Our trees in our forests need protection to ensure that those cut are replanted and cutting is done wisely.

And you never have to change the water, because the horse does it for you, by drinking it down and triggering the valve to refill. So there's always fresh oxygen for the fish. And you never have to feed the fish, because they eat the algae. And so long as no hawks or eagles come by to go fishing, you're golden." "And they don't scare the horse?" "Never met a horse who cared.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

So, you are happy to be a pigeon?" "Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert.

La sangre es el mejor abono ofrecido a la naturaleza.

Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.

Wenn die Blattläuse auf den Rosenzweigen sitzen und sich hübsch dick und grün gesogen haben, dann kommen die Ameisen und saugen ihnen den filtrierten Saft aus den Leibern. Und so geht's weiter, und wir haben's so weit gebracht, daß oben immer an einem Tage mehr verzehrt wird, als unten in einem beigebracht werden kann.

Humans have an odd ecology.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

Any segment of land . . . can be interesting of itself, but its greater significance must always lie in the life it sustains.

You preserve nothing without encountering some disadvantages. If we keep this [prairie] dog town, horses will break their legs and rattlers will come back. But in the large picture, things balance out, as they did two thousand years ago. The trick is to preserve the balance and pay whatever price it costs.

A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it's common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

Stay the course and keep building an integrated Apple ecosystem of iPhone + iPod + iMac + iTunes + App Store + Apple TV. No one has yet demonstrated they understand how to create an 'experience-based ecosystem' as well as Apple.

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you're in a lost world. You're in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

Fish rule the waters, but can be caught using worms.Birds rule the air, but can be caught using grain.

Fish cannot swim out of water.