Ecosystems quotes

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

#Ecosystems #Cockroaches #Plymouth

Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.
-- Achim Steiner

#Animal #Ecosystems #Giving

It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.
-- Alex Bruce

#Religious #Winning #Ecosystems

NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.
-- Anthony Watson

#Nike #Technology #Ecosystems

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Artist #Ecosystems #Fundamentals

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Thinking #Ecosystems #Ego

The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
-- Bernd Heinrich

#Self #Ecosystems #Ideas

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
-- Bette Midler

#Movie #Ecosystems #Sick

Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
-- Bill Mollison

#Order #Ecosystems #Agriculture

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

#Ecosystems #Greed #Understanding

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

#Ecosystems #Apples #Use

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

#Ecosystems #Earth #Persons

To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.
-- Chris Hedges

#Struggle #Ecosystems #Understanding

Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.
-- Chris Hedges

#Real #Ecosystems #Gossip

There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other, namely the ever-increasing size of the world's population
-- Chris Packham

#Ecosystems #Pressure #Bears

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
-- Chris Pratt

#Running #Light #Ecosystems

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
-- Dan Lipinski

#Home #Animal #Ecosystems

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
-- David Abram

#Ecosystems #Perception #Nervous

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse
-- David Attenborough

#Animal #Ecosystems #World

Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.
-- David Holmgren

#Thinking #Ecosystems #Australia

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
-- David James Duncan

#Ecosystems #Environmental #Compromise

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.
-- David Korten

#Zero #Taken #Ecosystems

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
-- David Rockefeller

#Impact #Ecosystems #Growth

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
-- David Suzuki

#Home #Ecosystems #People

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of the body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Mean #Self #Ecosystems

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.
-- Don Rittner

#Ecosystems #Trying

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.
-- Donella Meadows

#Mistake #Thinking #Ecosystems

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
-- E. O. Wilson

#Years #Ecosystems #Way

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.
-- E. O. Wilson

#Nature #Ecosystems #Giving

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
-- E. O. Wilson

#Land #Ecosystems #Would Be

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imperiling a vast array of species within a few square miles of you. The number of these species may go to tens of thousands. ... Many of them are still unknown to science, and science has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance of that ecosystem, as in the case of fungi, microorganisms, and many of the insects.
-- E. O. Wilson

#Cutting #Ecosystems #Numbers

I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC [The Nature Conservancy] can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.
-- Edward Norton

#Thinking #Organization #Ecosystems

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
-- Edward Norton

#Moving #Thinking #Ecosystems

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
-- Felix Dennis

#Ecosystems #Tree #Important

My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.
-- Frances Ford Seymour

#Impact #Ecosystems #Play

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.
-- Fred Krupp

#Ocean #Marine #Ecosystems

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

#Ecosystems #Broken #Community

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
-- Gary Hamel

#Educational #What Matters #Ecosystems

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
-- Gary Larson

#Loss #Ecosystems #Water

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.
-- Gary Snyder

#Order #Ecosystems #Diversity

I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.
-- Gary Snyder

#Islands #Turtles #Ecosystems

A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.
-- George Schaller

#Children #Animal #Ecosystems

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.
-- Gerald Durrell

#Men #Fire #Ecosystems

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.
-- Gloria Reuben

#Ecosystems #Soul #Mountain

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.
-- Gordon Gee

#Ecosystems #Tag #Size

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.
-- Greg Walden

#Fire #Ecosystems #Long

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Health #Ecosystems #People

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.
-- Gunter Pauli

#Relationship #Ecosystems #Numbers

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
-- Helen Clark

#Ecosystems #Growth #Economic

More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.
-- Ismail Serageldin

#Drinking #Ecosystems #Rivers

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
-- James Hansen

#Ecosystems #Climate #Shifting

We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction
-- James Hansen

#Future #Ecosystems #Sea

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.
-- Jan Peacock

#Artist #Ecosystems #Body

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
-- Janine Benyus

#Ecosystems #Design #Challenges

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

#Ecosystems #Cities #Copying

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.
-- Jared Polis

#Meaningful #Ecosystems #Innovation

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
-- Jim Fowler

#Law #Ecosystems #Challenges

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
-- Joan D. Vinge

#Running #Our World #Ecosystems

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.
-- Joel Salatin

#Roots #Oxygen #Ecosystems

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.
-- Joel Sartore

#Thinking #Ecosystems #Humanity

The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another,
-- John Ramsay

#Ecosystems #Way #Significant

The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.
-- Jon Pareles

#Ecosystems #Issues #Effort

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
-- Jonas Salk

#Ecosystems #Realizing #Environment

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.
-- Kate Sheppard

#Ecosystems #Earth #Safe

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit
-- Klaus Topfer

#Responsibility #Ecosystems #Rescue

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.
-- Kofi Annan

#Teamwork #Ecosystems #Play

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
-- Martha Beck

#Ecosystems #Earth #Helping

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it
-- Mary Schmich

#Ecosystems #Grows #Response

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.
-- Maude Barlow

#Thinking #Ecosystems #Priorities

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

#Ecosystems #Water #Environmental

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
-- Michael Chabon

#Ecosystems #House #Roles

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
-- Michael Heizer

#Ecosystems #Differences #Views

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.
-- Naomi Klein

#Religious #Ecosystems #Numbers

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
-- Park Geun-hye

#Fall #Ecosystems #Economic

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

#Ecosystems #Ironic #Soil

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

#Ecosystems #Survival #Earth

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.
-- Ratan Tata

#Ecosystems #Differences #Entrepreneur

We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.
-- Rebecca Adamson

#Thinking #Ecosystems #Community

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.
-- Rebecca Solnit

#Nature #Journey #Ecosystems

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.
-- Richard Heinberg

#Struggle #Ecosystems #Oil

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

#Ecosystems #People #Support

An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another.
-- Richard Lewontin

#Dna #Ecosystems #Gmos

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.
-- Robert Frenay

#Cells #Years #Ecosystems

Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.
-- Robert Redford

#Moving #Ecosystems #Issues

We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. ThereÂ’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didnÂ’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.
-- Robin Williams

#Moon #Ecosystems #Rivers

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.
-- Sigmar Gabriel

#Ecosystems #Agriculture #Diversity

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.
-- Sigmar Gabriel

#Ecosystems #Together #Three

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.
-- Stephen Elop

#Ecosystems #Share #Devices

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.
-- Stephen Schwartz

#Compassion #Ecosystems #Trying

With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always, of course, excepting the interaction of some six billion such brains and their owners within the socio-technological culture of our planetary ecosystem!
-- Steven Rose

#Cells #Ecosystems #Brain

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.
-- Stuart L. Hart

#Yield #Land #Ecosystems

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
-- Ted Danson

#Ecosystems #Pieces #Way

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.
-- Thomas Friedman

#Ecosystems #Innovation #Fuel

The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.
-- Vandana Shiva

#War #Moving #Ecosystems

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

#Ecosystems #Ideas #Giving

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.
-- Wes Jackson

#Running #Stars #Ecosystems

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.
-- Widad Akrawi

#Loss #Rights #Ecosystems

Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
-- Will Steffen

#Ecosystems #Impact #Landscape

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
-- William H. Schlesinger

#Ecosystems #Play #Healthy

Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged ecosystems is transforming and strengthening their relationship with the rest of nature.
-- William K. Stevens

#Heart #Ecosystems #Volunteer