Biodiversity Quotes - Page 6

• If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Men, Air

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• Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.

  Tom Turner

  Animal, Land, Diversity

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• An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Water, Landscape

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• A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Evening, Causes, Sound

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Believe, Cocky, Divine Right

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• If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms of biodiversity and sustainability - to the tropics, everything gets worse. You have Indonesia, which is destroying its own forest. In West Africa there's no control whatsoever. It's a global situation. For that reason it ties in clearly with the needs and relationships of low-income countries.

  E. O. Wilson

  Country, World, Sustainability

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

  Richard Leakey

  Race, Numbers, Next

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• What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

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• One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Mass Destruction, People

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.

  Vandana Shiva

  Healing, People, Survival

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

  Vandana Shiva

  Other Cultures, Innovation, Corporations

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rivers, People, Justice

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep personal growth. This program [Animal sanctuary] will deploy ISF's youth development program, U Factor. The program helps youth identify their passion, cultivate their talent, amplify their purpose, and connect the younger generation to diminishing species and biodiversity.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Art, Passion, Opportunity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Loss, Fire

  David Suzuki, Holly Dressel (2009). “From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis”, p.328, Greystone Books Ltd

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• I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.

  Klaus Topfer

  Country, Countries Of The World, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The thing that I think about most often is the loss of biodiversity. We talk about these food issues so often with concern to historically excluded communities, but I'm concerned with everyone having access to healthy foods. Consumers across the board are being robbed of biodiversity.

  Bryant Terry

  Loss, Thinking, Community

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