Andrew H. Knoll Quotes

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

Endangered species are our friends.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.