Biodiversity Quotes
Biodiversity Quote of the day
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.
The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.
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.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.
To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.
The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15 years will decide the future of biodiversity on Earth.
Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.
Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other regions.
Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.