Quotes about Biodiversity

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,

Naturalist John Muir concluded sadly, "It is a great comfort … that vast multitudes of creatures, great and small and infinite in number, lived and had a good time in God's love before man was created.

When I hear of the destruction of a species ... I just feel as if all the the works of some great writer had perished.

It is now clear not only that all the trees in the forest are interconnected below the ground but also that each of the largest and oldest trees serves as a "mother tree," with younger trees growing within her root-fungi network.

Phragmipedium kovachii. It is a stunningly beautiful orchid from the Amazon rain forest in northeast Peru, with a blue-purple flower that can have a horizontal spread of up to nine and a half inches.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.