Ecosystems Quotes - Page 3

• NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.

  Anthony Watson

  Nike, Technology, Innovation

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• Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

  Widad Akrawi

  Loss, Rights, Justice

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.

  Chris Hedges

  Struggle, Understanding, Awful

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• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

  Janine Benyus

  Cities, Copying, Three

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• I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Ego, Social Network

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• Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

  Stephanie Mills

  Running, Attitude, Land

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• It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think it's something people should be considering given the emergency situation we're in regarding water supplies, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems. There's a lot of overlap between animal rights and the environment.

  Emily Deschanel

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  "One on One with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Ligaya Figueras, www.vegetariantimes.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

  Thomas Friedman

  Innovation, Fuel, My Favorite

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• Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

  Sylvia Earle

  Support, Effort, Might

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• The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Years, Balance

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• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  Felix Dennis

  Tree, Important, Native

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• What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.

  Mirah

  Oil, Knowing, Feelings

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• As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.

  Gabe Newell

  Hurt, Sadness, Giants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged ecosystems is transforming and strengthening their relationship with the rest of nature.

  William K. Stevens

  Heart, Volunteer, Soul

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• Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Journey, Hiking

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.190, Penguin

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• We are facing another economic meltdown. The ecosystem, on which the human species depends for life, is being destroyed at a rate that has not even been anticipated by climate scientists. We don't have a lot of time left. So either we get out and fight or we're finished. Fear is the only thing the Democratic Party has to offer - fear that the Republican Party is worse.

  Chris Hedges

  Party, Fighting, Climate

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it. I would want people to truly consider what we do and how we treat the earth, the ecosystems, and animals we share it with, and think about the legacy we want to leave behind.

  Amanda Schull

  Animal, Thinking, People

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

  John Ramsay

  Significant Change, Way, Currents

  "A former SEC director joined the dark pool from 'Flash Boys' and likened the stock market to the Death Star" by Portia Crowe, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2015.

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• It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.

  Joshua Mohr

  Beautiful, Heart, Character

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• Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.

  Annalee Newitz

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

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• Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Life Lesson, Teaching, Animal

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• Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Ocean, Moving, Wave

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Knowing, Despair

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