Ecosystem Value Quotes

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

The only reason that people will preserve anything in nature is if money can be made off of it.

At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.

Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water, edible food and stable weather and climate? Surely the economy is the means to a better future, not an end in itself. Surely it must be subordinate to a rich, diverse ecosphere that sustains all life.

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.