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  • Native trees are so important to our ecosystem. -- Felix Dennis
  • Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow. -- Jack Ma
  • Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks. -- Chanda Kochhar
  • Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure. -- Park Geun-hye
  • Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. -- Paul Hawken
  • 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
  • The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. -- Li Bingbing
  • Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations. -- Martin Rees
  • 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
  • Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. -- Henry Rollins
  • There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. -- Adam Braun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. -- James Wolcott
  • For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean. -- Brian Skerry
  • As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business. -- Gabe Newell
  • 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
  • People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. -- Deepak Chopra
  • 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
  • What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. -- Elon Musk
  • I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here. -- Andy Cohen
  • It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to the garden. We have hummingbirds, tons of bees, and many monarch butterflies. The kids love it! Though we're very laissez-faire with the garden and never put chemicals on it or even water it much! -- Katherine Center
  • Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here. -- Sylvia Earle
  • By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. -- Bill Gates
  • Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. -- Jonas Salk
  • We are all part of the ecosystem. -- Bette Midler
  • That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem. -- Byron Katie
  • The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick. -- Bette Midler
  • Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. -- Sharon Gannon
  • Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem. -- Ratan Tata
  • An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest. -- Robert Greene
  • I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem. -- Michael Arrington
  • Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. -- David Abram
  • You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem. -- Aaron Levie
  • The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another, -- John Ramsay
  • Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. -- Yao Ming
  • We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company. -- Xavier Niel
  • We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. -- Sylvia Earle
  • You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference. -- Michael Heizer
  • Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. -- Stephen Elop
  • The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. -- Joan D. Vinge
  • To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements. -- Gordon Gee
  • I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back. -- Charles Clover
  • The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. -- Wes Jackson
  • We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform. -- Sarah Hall
  • I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. -- Charles Stross
  • Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem. -- Kris Gopalakrishnan
  • Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry. -- Sharon Gannon
  • 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
  • We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. -- Jonathan Eisen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem. -- Frank Herbert
  • One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle. -- Gisele Bundchen
  • The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living. -- Steven Pinker
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
  • I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy. -- John Battelle
  • Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you. -- Geoffrey Moore
  • 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
  • As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone. -- Keith Teare
  • On top of opportunities in further traffic growth, there are increasing opportunities to fully realize the potential of the online video ecosystem, as China continues to evolve into a consumer-driven economy. -- Victor Koo
  • We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence. -- Joel Salatin
  • Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines. -- Brian Skerry
  • 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
  • The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open. -- David Quammen
  • 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
  • By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs. -- Ryan Holmes
  • 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
  • I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • In conversation marketing, you're providing a service, a continuing dialogue whose course through the Web is unknown. The more value it adds to the ecosystem, the more it will be shared, amplified and celebrated. -- John Battelle
  • The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it. -- Jon Bowermaster
  • 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
  • Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that. -- Mike McCue
  • 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
  • Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis. -- Sarah Parcak
  • 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
  • Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages. -- Todd Park
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