Biological Diversity Quotes

#1. Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

Yogaswami

#2. Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. Her love is rare but she'll keep you wild.

Nikki Rowe

#4. Light is always more beautiful when it has to fight to be noticed, like sunlight fighting through the clouds after a rainstorm.

Nick Miller

#5. I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth.

Anne Michaels

#6. Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Marilyn Ferguson

#7. We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

Sorin Cerin

#8. I watch as the moon lies over the water like a lover, the waves lapping the shore with their strange luminescent glow.

Addison Moore

#9. Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.

Peter Jackson

#10. One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Douglas Tallamy

#11. 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

E. O. Wilson

#12. Never argue; repeat your assertion.

Robert Owen

#13. Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#14. The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

E. O. Wilson

#15. Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Murray Gell-Mann

#16. Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Vandana Shiva

#17. I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to biological material. At the time, I never thought of what I'm doing now as a career. I thought I wouldn't find employment doing this.

Cary Fowler

#18. You would have to forget everything that came out of her mouth in order to later enjoy it on your cock.

Michelle Tea

#19. I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Edward O. Wilson

#20. She's alone, Inserted so deep in her blankets; I'm going to need a map to find her.

Tanya Watt

#21. Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

Michelle Zink

#22. One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

Michele Bachmann

#23. If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory.

Carl Sagan

#24. Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

Paul Hawken

#25. The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

Sigmar Gabriel

#26. A typical battlefield of this struggle is Hawaii, America's most deceptively beautiful state. For most residents and visitors, it seems an unspoiled island paradise. In actuality it is a killing field of biological diversity. When

Edward O. Wilson

#27. What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.

Miguel

#28. Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it ... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.

E. O. Wilson