Top Ecosystems Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Ecosystems quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Paul Stamets
Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.
- Paul Stamets
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of David Abram
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
- David Abram
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Jonas Salk
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
- Jonas Salk
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of George Monbiot
Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.
- George Monbiot
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Fritjof Capra
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
- Fritjof Capra
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Fritjof Capra
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
- Fritjof Capra
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Wes Jackson
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
- Wes Jackson
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Maude Barlow
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.
- Maude Barlow
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Janine Benyus
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
- Janine Benyus
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Jonathan Schell
The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.
- Jonathan Schell
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Mary Schmich
Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it
- Mary Schmich
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Richard Heinberg
If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.
- Richard Heinberg
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Chris Packham
There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor putting more pressure on the eco system than any other - namely the ever-increasing population.
- Chris Packham
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Kate Sheppard
The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.
- Kate Sheppard
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Barry Commoner
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of William H. Schlesinger
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
- William H. Schlesinger
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Rajendra K. Pachauri
For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.
- Rajendra K. Pachauri
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Stephen Elop
Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.
- Stephen Elop
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Sylvia Earle
We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.
- Sylvia Earle
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Don Rittner
Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.
- Don Rittner
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Bernard Lietaer
Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.
- Bernard Lietaer
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Aaron Eckhart
I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.
- Aaron Eckhart
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Bruce Tognazzini
The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.
- Bruce Tognazzini
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Jeff Corwin
I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.
- Jeff Corwin
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of John Ramsay
The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.
- John Ramsay
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Horst Rechelbacher
What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food? Is it an important medicine? What can it do for future generations - or present generations?
- Horst Rechelbacher
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Horst Rechelbacher
We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So we clearcut a part of the virgin forest and now part of our ecosystem has been wiped out. Some of it may grow back, and some of it won't.
- Horst Rechelbacher
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Ramez Naam
The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.
- Ramez Naam
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Howard Warren Buffett
Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
- Howard Warren Buffett
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Alan Thein Durning
If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.
- Alan Thein Durning
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Mirah
What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.
- Mirah
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Bette Midler
We are all part of the ecosystem.
- Bette Midler
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Bill Nye
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.
- Bill Nye
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Pope John Paul II
We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of E. O. Wilson
The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?
- E. O. Wilson
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Bill McKibben
One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.
- Bill McKibben
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Wendell Berry
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
- Wendell Berry
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Robert Greene
An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Juan Enriquez
There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.
- Juan Enriquez
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Kenneth E. Boulding
In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.
- Kenneth E. Boulding
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Helen Clark
Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
- Helen Clark
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Barry Commoner
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Leonardo DiCaprio
For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Paul Watson
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
- Paul Watson
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Mikhail Gorbachev
Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Frank Herbert
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.
- Frank Herbert
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Boris Johnson
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
- Boris Johnson
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Vinod Khosla
It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
- Vinod Khosla
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Byron Katie
That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
- Byron Katie
Collection: Ecosystems
Image of Bryant H. McGill
There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.
- Bryant H. McGill
Collection: Ecosystems