Quotes About Ecosystem

Man knows next to nothing about the ocean. And because of that, he doesn't respect it, and he is ruining it with overfishing, pollution, global warming, toxic algal blooms.

He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of species--sometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain.

in the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful

How many frogs would fit in lizard's stomach?

principal breeding site of the Southern Right Whale.

they had gone ashore, they would have encountered an animal paradise of foxes, hares, puma, peregrine falcons, owls

They dump their bulky backpacks, weighed down with tools, food, poisonous chemicals, plastic piping, and tents, and begin cutting trees and clearing the ground, manually and with herbicides. Then they set to work laying out waterlines, building check dams, and digging into the soil before planting thousands of cannabis seeds.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Jewel-bright grasshoppers buzzed around me, their wings aglitter.

The smallest insect is as important as the largest bear.

Plenty of ladybirds, plenty of hops.

Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.

For 250 million years, redwood kingdoms have crowned the Pacific Coast of North America.

The dome of coolness above the pond throbs with croaking. Dragonflies and damselflies pierce the slanting light that burnishes the surface of the water with fire. At the edges frogs wait to spring.

Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.

Man did not weave the web of life—he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."1

Nothing ruins an ecosystem more than cementing it over. So what f*#!-ing difference does it make if you toss a butt on the ground?

walking food source.

Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world.

In an ideal world, you don't want creatures where they shouldn't be because there's always unintended consequences.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.