Ecosystems Quotes - Page 10

• Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Apples, Connections

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• Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, People

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

  Ramez Naam

  Roi, Achieve, Notion

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Children, Thinking, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

  Juan Enriquez

  Looks, Biosphere, Various

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Lakes, Russia, Care

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

  David Quammen

  Yellowstone, Needs, Migration

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

  Vandana Shiva

  Jobs, Growth Hormones, Creating

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value, or the old entertainment construction, which is we've gone down to this instant gratification, instant numbers, instant understanding, instant. But it's like the exact - it has perfected itself to the instant click, when, in a way, creativity originates as a much more complex beast. So we now have to reinvent a new canvas where we can indulge in it. And that's where the digital revolution creates a whole new ecosystem of entertainment.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creativity, Digital Revolution, Indulge In

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One of them is a content ecosystem, which is leveraging and utilizing as many different platforms as you possibly can to continue to drive the conversation so people have the opportunity to enter your brand from different ways.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Opportunity, Keys, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Greed, Eating

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Lakes, Sea

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

  Bill McKibben

  Degrees, Earth, Enough

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teacher, Teaching, Practice

  "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Clouds

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• We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

  Klaus Topfer

  Responsibility, Rescue, Duty

  "Scientists find missing links in chimp genome" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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• An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

  Jan Peacock

  Artist, Body, May

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• Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Soil, Assets, Capacity

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• School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.

  Shaheen Mistri

  Teacher, Strong, School

  "The Global Search for Education: Education Is My Right - India". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

  Joel Salatin

  Roots, Oxygen, Tree

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• The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Moving, Yield

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• The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

  Bette Midler

  Movie, Sick, Film

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