Quotes About Biodiversity

We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I'm optimistic that we will.

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle of humility; none of us can act alone.

For animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.

animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.

Denize bak. Bir sürü canl?yla dolu, irili ufakl? canl?lardan ibaret. Hiçbir ÅŸey yapm?yorlar, birbirlerini yemek d???nda hiçbir ÅŸey yapm?yorlar. Yiyor ve ürüyorlar. Birbirlerini yiyor ve kendileri üzüyorlar. Neyseler o olduklar? için mi? Yoksa baÅŸka bir ÅŸeye dönüÅŸtükleri için mi?

Invasive plants—Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines.

Consider the magnitude of this... Taxonomists have described almost a million species of arthropods, and all fit into four major groups; one quarry in British Columbia, representing the first explosion of multicellular life, reveals more than twenty additional arthropod designs!

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

We are destroying the amazon rainforest, the lungs of our planet and home to our biodiversity in replace of producing soy beans so that we can feed cattle and enjoy hamburgers. Only and insane and sick society would allow for such an abomination to occur

We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.

The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago. Those old-timers now lurk only in backyard gardens and on farms that specialize in direct sales--if they survive at all. Many heirlooms have been lost entirely.

Most people lived so far from it, they thought you could just choose, carnivore or vegetarian, without knowing that the chemicals on grain and cotton killed far more butterflies and bees and bluebirds and whippoorwills than the mortal cost of a steak or a leather jacket.

There is nothing boring about the prospect of extinction.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

El ritmo actual de destrucción de la biodiversidad es comparable e incluso superior al de las perturbaciones ambientales que produjeron las grandes extinciones en masa (incluida la que acabó con los dinosaurios).