Quotes About Biodiversity

Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.

levels that occurred deep within forests.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

What is the key to life on Earth?

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.

I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

As many as 1 million plant and animal species (of 8 million total) are threatened with extinction, some within a few decades.

concluded that "nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history." It noted that 75% of all land has been "severely altered" by human actions, as has 66% of the world's ocean area. Ecosystems are collapsing, and biodiversity is disappearing. As many as 1 million plant and animal species

While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences.

A lot of fish that live in the sea, they are your normal, nice, pretty, silvery, shiny fish.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

Eat a wide variety of species.