Quotes About Ecosystem

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

any illness that kills one animal threatens to wipe out all (91): This curse of closely knit species also applies to our dairy cows, now almost clones of one another; an illness that kills one can kill all.

Heinz Heck wrote after the war that he and his brother had begun the back-breeding project out of curiosity, but also from the thought that if man cannot be halted in his mad destruction of himself and other creatures, it is at least a consolation if some of those kinds of animals he has already exterminated can be brought back to life again.

Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.

A garden always includes many smaller gardens. Indeed, no garden exists as a single thing. By its nature, it is plural, just as each person is a symposium of cells, or an arch is a strength made from many weaknesses.

Thudd pointed out the birds that flashed through the trees—screaming orange-and-green king parrots, black riflebirds that made a sound like a gunshot, and green catbirds that meowed.

earth from these fields washed into the rivers and down into the Caribbean, where it settled on fragile coral reefs and destroyed them.

When you take an antibiotic, you tend to wipe out a lot of good bacteria while trying to get at the bad ones. It's like weeding with a bulldozer instead of a trowel.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

Es un hecho que no podríamos vivir sin las abejas y que nuestra vida depende también de los terremotos.

There seems to be a tacit assumption that if grizzlies survive in Canada and Alaska, that is good enough. It is not good enough for me. Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness to heaven; one may never get there.

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

And if you think far enough about it you know that a molecule of water that once fell from you in a tear or a drop of sweat or a drop of blood forty years ago might be back in your veins or in your bladder after having gone through the ground and down streams into the sea and around the world as vapor and clouds and back to where you are as rain or snow, and into you via your morning coffee, maybe even having passed through an Eskimo and a fox and an oak tree in the meantime.

Florestas inteiras respiram em uníssono.

Everything affects everything else, and you have to understand that whole web of connections.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Somebody has to be tireless, or the fast-buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay, and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet." These

Woodpeckers are natural engineers whose abandoned nest and roost cavities facilitate a great diversity of life, including birds, mammals, invertebrates, and many fungi,moss, and lichens. Without woodpeckers, birds such as chickadees and tits, swallows ans martins, bluebirds, some flycatchers, nuthatches, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, and small owls (screech, saw-whet, and pygmy) would be homeless.

Those of us who retain dead trees or place nest boxes in our yards enjoy the wonder of watching woodpeckers listen and dig for termites; we are serenaded by wrens; and we benefit from the appetites of swallow, chickadee, bluebird, and flycatcher broods that are sated on insects, including pesky mosquitoes.