Quotes About Ecosystem

In Yellowstone National Park there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

Forests are the elixir of life

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies,

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies," as the blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow terms it.23

Just as they had followed the buffalo across the plains, wolves now followed it, in a few short years, to the brink of extinction.

Trees are contrivances for lofting bacteria skyward to give them a clear view of a yellow dwarf.

One gram of rich forest soil contains an estimated 100 million prokaryotes.

Ex-governor Walter Hickel, decrying the interference of wolf advocates (many of them Outsiders) in the issue two decades ago, put it best, with this unintentionally comical, landmark statement: "You can't just let nature run wild.

Modern, well-documented research demonstrates that apex predators such as wolves play keystone roles in keeping prey populations healthy by culling the weak and infirm. They also keep ungulate numbers in balance with habitat; wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone resulted in a stunning transformation of overbrowsed, depleted river and stream corridors, to the benefit of many species, from aspens and cottonwoods to beaver to songbirds to cutthroat trout. An

This was the world I belonged to now, this one, where when a living thing died it fed others, where the scents were of mouse drops and sap, not exhaust fumes and cordite, and the air hummed with insects rather than screams and the roar of flame.

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...

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A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.

Una escena que sorprende en los documentales de la naturaleza es ver al depredador, pacífico después de comer, al lado y conviviendo en armonía con los que serán su futuro alimento.

Not every beast needs to be hunted down and killed; some are best left alone to live and die in their part of the forest.

The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will yield quite as much as they would if they were living alone. It is the cumulative yield of all the plants living on the same piece of land that makes forest gardens productive, not the high yield of individuals.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

honey-hunting bees.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

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

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

Research to date suggests silvopasture far outpaces any grassland technique. That is because silvopastoral systems sequester carbon in both the biomass aboveground and the soil below. Pastures that are strewn or crisscrossed with trees sequester five to ten times as much carbon as those of the same size that are treeless. Moreover, because the livestock yield on a silvopasture plot is higher

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.