Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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?

Don Rittner

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.

Douglas Coupland

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

Louie Schwartzberg

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

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

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.

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.

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Graeme Dott

I got some luck in the last frame, which I thought was ironic because I thought I might win then.

Alexandra Adornetto

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

Orson Scott Card

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,

Douglas Coupland

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

Demetri Martin

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Jesse Eisenberg

[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.

Michael Harrison

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

James Joyce

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.