Biodiversity Hotspot Quotes

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.

Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

There is no kingdom like the forests.

Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)