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Quotes About Ecosystem

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
~ Aldo Leopold
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
~ Vandana Shiva
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
~ E. O. Wilson
Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
~ W. H. Auden
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
~ E. O. Wilson
In nature nothing exists alone.
~ Rachel Carson
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
~ Jim Fowler
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
~ Bindi Irwin
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
~ Philip Shabecoff
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
~ John Dewey
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.
~ Joy Adamson
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
~ Robert Boyle
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
~ Ansel Adams
Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.
~ Prince Philip
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
~ Barry Commoner
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
~ David Brower
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
~ Rachel Carson
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
~ Berthold Auerbach
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
~ Wes Jackson
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?
~ Loren Eiseley
A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.