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Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Abyss Deep Deepest Down Ecosystems Even Light Ocean Our Portions Whatsoever Work

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We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Carbon Chemical Depend Depth Diversity Ecological Ecosystems Gas Health Including Just Life Limits Multitude Need New Prosperity Real Respecting Shared Still Supplies Toxic War Water While

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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Aspect Ecosystems Every Fundamental Isolated Learning Lives Nature Our Our Lives Part Phenomenon Repercussions Through

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We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Ask Atmosphere Billion Commons Dignified Ecosystems Family Fundamental Future Future Generations Generations Global How Human Life Milestone New Now Oceans Our Our Planet Ourselves Planet Preserving Protecting Provide Questions Reached Seven Some Support Time Us While

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It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Change Climate Climate Change Disappear Ecosystems Get Hit Nobody People Poorer Really See Some Tropical Wants Well Which Who Will Zone

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The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Assignment Bahamas Beds Coral Deep Dreamed Ecosystems Exquisite Grass Had Multiple Perfect Photographing Sea Shallow Shark Sharks Species Start Trenches Water

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The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.

~Christopher Monckton

Topics: Any Bible Creation Earth Ecosystems Effect Engineer God Good Like Product Resilient Robust Sees Therefore View Wise World World View

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Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

~David James Duncan

Topics: Barely Compromise Deadly Ecosystems Environmental Head Holy Itself Lives Only Policy Word

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The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Act Beyond Businesses Causing Change Climate Climate Change Damage Destroyed Driven Ecosystems Extinction Fail Get Goes Homes Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Infrastructure Lives Lost People Smashed Species Thousands Will Worse

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When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Bird Considered Country Dark Ecosystems Evil Forest Interconnectedness Later Matter Need Needed New Now Our Plow Settled Some Something Species Understanding Ways Why You

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