Quotes About Biodiversity

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

celled. Then a catastrophe occurred (in the sense of sudden change), a dramatic increase in biodiversity, an anti-extinction, if you will. In a flash, there were not just some animal forms, but all of them. In the fossil record, all modern body types appear together at this moment. We don't know why this happened when it did. It's likely that the explosion had to wait until oxygen levels rose high enough to support the greater energy needs of larger bodies,

When one considers how necessary the honeybee is to life on earth, it puts the arrogant pretentions of mankind into a proper context.

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

Although I was reared on a junkyard by parents who did not waste time hiking or camping, I knew pine trees and pitcher plants, bobcats and brown thrashers, as my people.

A hydroid colony no bigger than can be contained in one's cupped hands may be almost a whole universe in itself - a complete unit of life, with possibly dozens of units in one tide pool.

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.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of those who cannot

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: What good is it?

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

there are two kinds of people: those who can live without wild things & those who cannot.