Quotes About Invasive Species

#1. Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

John M. McHugh

#2. And no one wants to be noticed because of something like that; it's like being an invasive species that no one pays any attention to until you've strangled and ruined all the beautiful native plants. The

Jasmine Warga

#3. Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders.

Richard Preston

#4. Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#5. Botanists call it an invasive species. But aren't we all?

Teju Cole

#6. The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.

Enric Sala

#7. Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

John Green

#8. One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

Callie Khouri

#9. The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

Kelly Miller

#11. Racist words and vulgar threats will puncture down deep to the soul.

Angela Brown

#12. Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom.

Lauren Oliver

#13. Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Thomas J. Watson

#14. War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.

Nancy Gibbs

#15. You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

Bill Engvall

#16. If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

Leo Steinberg

#17. Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.

James P. Hoffa