biodiversity maintenance Quotes

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

Earthworms are far more valuable than people.