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  • Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. -- Sylvia Earle
  • 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
  • Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic. -- Jonas Gahr Store
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals. -- Ted Danson
  • Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. -- Douglas Coupland
  • As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. -- James Hansen
  • I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. -- Martha Beck
  • Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. -- Yao Ming
  • We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. -- Edward Norton
  • In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend. -- William H. Schlesinger
  • The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. -- Joan D. Vinge
  • I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it. -- Louie Schwartzberg
  • 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
  • If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change. -- Hendrik Poinar
  • 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 First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. -- Michael Chabon
  • 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
  • It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. -- Bill Gates
  • Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
  • In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered. -- Winona LaDuke
  • We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security. -- Paul Hawken
  • The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer. -- Christopher Monckton
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more. -- Jeff Goodell
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. -- Brian Skerry
  • 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
  • Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants. -- Tristram Stuart
  • The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them. -- Wendell Berry
  • 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
  • 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
  • We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon. -- Alex Steffen
  • We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us? -- Ban Ki-moon
  • 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
  • We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into the greater scheme of things, and begin to understand how the system works, we can plan ahead, we can use the resources responsibly, to show some respect for this inheritance that goes back 4.6 billion years. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Healthy ecosystems promote healthy life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs. -- Bruce Babbitt
  • Economic growth which strips out the planet's ecosystems is not sustainable -- Helen Clark
  • Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. -- Don Rittner
  • Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems -- Don Rittner
  • Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it -- Mary Schmich
  • This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems. -- Stephen Elop
  • One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems. -- Bill McKibben
  • The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident. -- David Rockefeller
  • The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better. -- Ramez Naam
  • There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect. -- Bill Gates
  • We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit -- Klaus Topfer
  • The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on. -- Kate Sheppard
  • We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. -- Wendell Berry
  • 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
  • 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
  • I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions. -- Michael McCoy
  • When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species. -- Helene D. Gayle
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface. -- Charlie Jane Anders
  • 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
  • Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who call them home and drink their tears. -- Ann Burton
  • 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
  • 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
  • The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected areas and make sure that critical fish spawning sites and ecosystems remain undisturbed. -- Serge Dedina
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