Quotes About Ecosystem

To remember what bio-diversity is and why it is important, we must conserve nature close to where we live and work as well as develop distant reserves.

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

We are the environment.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

Love water, protect it:

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

We need bees to survive.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land--in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.