Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rockefeller

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

Barry Commoner

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

Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

Bill Nye

I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

We regard this as a step toward being able to manage the Gulf of Maine on an ecosystem basis. Each increment of knowledge will enable policy makers to make better decisions.

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.

Bruce Tognazzini

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.

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.

Xavier Niel

We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

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.

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.

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.

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?

This register is the first, essential step toward understanding the Gulf of Maine as a whole ecosystem. This lays the foundation for the next step, which is to understand how these species interact with each other and their surroundings to make the ecosystem work.

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

Bill Gates

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.

Jonathan Schell

The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.

Helen Clark

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

Steven Pinker

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.

This is a research project we started three weeks ago. It's part of our ecosystem unit.

Gary Snyder

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.

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.

Wade Davis

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

Ian Johnson

Sound management of ecosystems is key to a responsible path to growth.

Frank Herbert

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.

Jack Ma

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

Greg Walden

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.

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

Jonas Salk

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