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“Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?”

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Kenneth E. Boulding was a renowned economist, born on January 18, 1910, and passed away on March 18, 1993. His research in economics covered a wide range of fields, particularly in general systems theory, conflict theory, and peace studies. more

“A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.”

“Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.”

Cost Treasure Complexity Biodiversity Greatest Treasure

Author:Thomas Eisner

“We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.”

Wells Fighting Winning Nature Environment Emotional Battle Species Ecology Biodiversity Forging Save Nature

Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.”

Ifs Whole Might Lost Nature Environmental Chains Links Biodiversity Environmental Stewardship

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.”

Should Might Term Easier Areas Concern Species Protection Short Term Biodiversity

Author:Richard Leakey

“It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause”

Humans Next Causes Numbers Race Happenings Species Human Race Annihilation Biodiversity

Author:Richard Leakey

“Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.”

Men Two Process Rich Mankind Flower Civilization Creating Mass Areas Bills Species Complexity Soil Delicate Items Biodiversity Monoculture Delicate Flower

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.”

Stills Loss Effort Poverty Roles Environment Development Essentials Environmental Including Debate Discussion Initiative Degradation Biodiversity Accelerate Environmental Degradation Topsoil

Author:Wangari Maathai

“What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.”

Ifs Littles Long War Return Civilization Remains Species Patterns Wilderness Broads Display Persist Biodiversity Overdue Armistice

Author:Stephanie Mills

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