|
BIODIVERSITY
QUOTES Page
1 | Page 2 | Page
3 | Page 4 | (Click
on *
for free 8.5
X 11 PDF to print)
| Many
people are helping to make the world a better place, but humanity as a whole is
making it difficult for other living creatures that share our planet to survive.
-- Robert Alan
|  |
It
is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather
than just one or two stars.
-- David Attenborough
| |
We are committed with our
lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth,
and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization
and we will not rest until we see it realized.
-- Maude
Barlow *
No
piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems
... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.
-- Maude Barlow |
| "We
find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced
with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its
major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide
and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with
biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation
of the earth itself."
~ Thomas
Berry |  |
"Each
one [of the Earth's 5 million invertebrate species] plays a role in its ecosystem.
It's like we're tearing the cogs out of a great machine. The machine might work
after you tear out ten cogs, but what happens when you tear out a hundred?"
— Scott Black
| |
*
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the
immediate benefit of man?
~ Kenneth
E. Boulding
*
With laissez-faire and price atomic,
Ecology's Uneconomic,
But with
another kind of logic
Economy's Unecologic.
~ Kenneth
E. Boulding | The
number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million,
most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their
original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were
many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish
and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.
-- Paul Brown
 | A
diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with
overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When
a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the
network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize
itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its
pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
-- Fritjof
Capra |
| "There
is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business
in liquidation."
~ Herman
Daly |  |
| *
When
I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests.
I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an
actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have
been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of
all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an
environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.
~ Leonardo
DiCaprio |  |
The
nation’s biological diversity has great economic, aesthetic, and spiritual value.”
-- Ecological Society of America
 | Scientists
know we must protect species because they are working parts of our life-support
system.
-- Paul Ehrlich |
Biodiversity
is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all
cost.
- Thomas Eisner BIODIVERSITY
QUOTES Page
1 | Page 2 | Page
3 | Page 4 | (Click
on *
for free 8.5
X 11 PDF to print) |
