Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Stamets

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.

Mary Schmich

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

Martha Beck

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

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

Michael Chabon

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Sigmar Gabriel

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

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.

Ramez Naam

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

James Hansen

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

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.

Jonas Salk

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

Paul Watson

In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

Pope John Paul II

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.

Robert Greene

An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

Vinod Khosla

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.

Thomas Friedman

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

Ted Danson

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.

Stephen Elop

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

Sylvia Earle

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

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Terence McKenna

The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

Ratan Tata

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

Winona LaDuke

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.

Wendell Berry

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

Yao Ming

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.