Quotes by Ecosystems The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on. Kate Sheppard ecosystemssafeearth We're a small part of this ecosystem. When we go to a school and talk about investment banking, they are these monster financial conglomerates, and so we end up in the same pot. That is still an issue for us. Ken Moelis issuesecosystemsschool The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. It recognizes aesthetic, moral, and religious ideas and experiences as a species, in this case of mental structures or of images, which clearly interacts with other species in the world's great' ecosystem. Kenneth E. Boulding ecosystemsreligiousideas What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common? Ken Wilber ecosystemswarmean In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples. Kenneth E. Boulding ecosystemsexamplecalling We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit. Klaus Topfer rescueecosystemsresponsibility Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it. Kofi Annan ecosystemsresponsibilityteamwork For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. Leonardo DiCaprio climate-changeeconomyecosystems Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm. Marjory Stoneman Douglas ecosystemsanimalphilosophy I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. Martha Beck ecosystemsearthhelping Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it Mary Schmich responseecosystemsgrows The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. Maude Barlow environmentalecosystemswater 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 prioritiesecosystemsthinking The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. Michael Chabon ecosystemsroleshouse Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference. Michael Heizer ecosystemsdifferencesviews Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature. Mikhail Gorbachev ecosystemsrussialakes What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature. Mirah oilecosystemsknowing Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea. Obviously, people can't survive without air and water, and we rely on plants and animals for food, and plants and animals rely on us to preserve their habitats. Naomi Oreskes ecosystemsairanimal The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections. Naomi Klein ecosystemsreligiousnumbers We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value, or the old entertainment construction, which is we've gone down to this instant gratification, instant numbers, instant understanding, instant. But it's like the exact - it has perfected itself to the instant click, when, in a way, creativity originates as a much more complex beast. So we now have to reinvent a new canvas where we can indulge in it. And that's where the digital revolution creates a whole new ecosystem of entertainment. Nicolas Winding Refn digital-revolutionecosystemscreativity«12345678910»
