Quotes About Ecosystem

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Uni­verse.

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

In strange and beautiful wares. It sells the lovely animals of the sea, the sponges, tunicates, anemones, the stars and buttlestars, and sun stars, the bivalves, barnacles, the worms and shells, the fabulous and multiform little brothers, the living moving flowers of the sea, nudibranchs and tectibranchs, the spiked and nobbed and needly urchins

If the most versatile of living forms, the human, now fights for survival as it always has, it can eliminate not only itself but all other life. (p 165)

It was the same noble impulse that stripped the forests of the West and right now is pumping water out of California's earth faster than it can rain back in. When the desert comes, people will be sad;

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

The earth's lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware, where before the air had been cold and blind, remote as the moon.

Sheep eat the grass, wolves eat the deer, and dragons eat everything that doesn't run away fast enough.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Mosquitos remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.