Quotes About Ecosystem

In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.

Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.

Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.

The facts are clear. Our oceans are a mess.

We could truly make our oceans clean again.

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.

Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt?

The lack of diversity is harmful to the vitality of a healthy team ecosystem—the climate needed to engender creativity and insight. For it is the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills that introduces increased quantities of creative solutions.

Gaea. The planet is an organism. All of us are cells with different purposes. And yet we are intertwined. Serving each other. Serving the whole.

it had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.

Womangrove root and firefern lined the banks, and each branch and twisting

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.

The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.

In the natural community, whenever a population's food supply increases, that population increases. As that population increases, its food supply decreases, and as its food supply decreases, that population decreases. This interaction between food populations and feeder populations is what keeps everything in balance.

The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn't massacre them, as an enemy would. It kills one

The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Uncounted species--not just charismatic animals like tigers, gorillas, rhinos, and saola but an even larger number of obscure rodents, amphibians, birds, and reptiles--have been pressed to the brink. We hardly know them, and yet within the vastness of the universe, they and the rest of Earth's biota are our only known companions. Without them, our loneliness would stretch to infinity.

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.