BIODIVERSITY QUOTES
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"It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of something else."
- Maimonides
The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
-- Paul McCartney
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization’s war upon it.
~ Stephanie MillsWe share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
- Pamela A. MatsonEvery time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
-- Jeffrey McNeely"We—human beings—are part of 'biodiversity.' We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us."
— Darrell MerrellBiodiversity is our nation's natural wealth. The Endangered Species Act safeguards these riches.
- Judy L. Meyer"We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust--a wholesale elimination of species--that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years."
-- Norman Myers"Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own."
- Norman Myers"The current massive degradation of habitat and extinction of species is taking place on a catastrophically short timescale, and their effects will fundamentally reset the future evolution of the planet's biota."
-- National Academy of Sciences
* We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species… we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die"
-- Queen Noor of Jordan
"The value of biodiversity is more than the sum of its parts."
- Byran G. Norton
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Maude Barlow | Kenneth Boulding | Leonardo DiCaprio| Harrison Ford |
Richard Gere | Queen Noor | Vandana ShivaBiodiversity Day - May 22
