Ecosystem Diversity Quotes

An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.

From our point of view it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world. We can't take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.

Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.

The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors.