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The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Because Biodiversity Changing Ecosystems Future Future Generations Generations Get Given Landscapes Law Main Make Nobody Out Parks People Place Protect Sure Thrust Value Will You Young Young People

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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Ants Away Ecosystems Environments Land Many Partial Take Would

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It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

~Edith Widder

Topics: Clear Ecosystems Going Need Ocean Part Plays Those Understand

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Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Basically Century Conservation Dealing Ecosystems Moving Needs People Preserving Think Toward I Think 21St Century

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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Closer Distant Ecosystems Healthy Help Home How Islands Marine May Monument National Our Pacific Remote Revive Seas Shores Troubled Understand Us Will Work

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Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Because Cycle Does Ecosystems Efficiency Everything Exist Grows Nature Never-Ending Purpose Waste

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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

~Gary Larson

Topics: Any Changed Comparable Demands Diversity Earth Ecosystems Fiber Food Fresh Fuel Growing History Human Human History Humans Irreversible Largely Life Loss Meet More Period Rapidly Resulted Substantial Than Timber Time Water

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