Quotes About Ecosystem

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

For me, the Canyon isn't just a tourist destination. It's a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.

the overburden like that they've turned the geology upside down. Topsoil is on the bottom and rock that was on the bottom is now on top. Native plants and trees won't grow in it. So they introduce non-native plantings that are royally screwing up the ecosystem.

Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea." "Why, as men do aland—the great ones eat up the little ones." —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE King Richard the Second

The radicals are right about that. Diversity is the key. "But it need not be the same diversity as existed before mankind. Indeed, it cannot be the same. We are in a time of changes. Species will pass away and others take their place, as has happened before. An ecosystem frozen in stone can only become a fossil.

Wolf-Spiders Ruleth the Land

Uganda is defended by its insects.

The weeds turned into a jungle where spiders wolfed the ladybugs and wasps dive-bombed the spiders. A world where the new babies of one came from the dead bodies of others.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Unfortunately, upsetting the balance of nature just happens to be what our species has been selected to do well- although we hate admit it. Like the Walrus in Lewis Carroll's poem, we shed hypocritical tears over the diminishing supply of oysters, while gulping them down as quickly as ever.

To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.

Without the Earth, the Sun would be light only, not life.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

The economy has gotten bigger, the ecosystem has not. How big has the economy become relative to the ecosystem?

I think the wolves all died when the great forests were cut down. That howling you hear is only the Londoners.

One is this: without the means to pay experts, it's necessary to evolve a complex ecosystem of useful amateurs.

They eat one another. They eat us. They eat every damn thing. They'll drink up the whole world if we let them.

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.

But they are also life giving. They impregnate flowers, and they give us our food supply. They work as a collective. Plus they are responsible for the line: "And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world. We are like the small fish in the sea, the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones to take what's there.

No small part of the prosperity of California... depends upon the preservation of her water supply; and the water supply cannot be preserved unless the forests are preserved...

At nine, I started catching fish in Vancouver full of tumours from toxins.

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.