Quotes About Biodiversity

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

In nature nothing exists alone.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")

Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.