The Nature of Nature Quotes

“The truth is, we need forests more than we need cathedrals.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“We have turned wild habitats into cities, farmland, and shopping malls, crowding in on the species with whom we share this planet. We have created the perfect conditions for a modern plague.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“Now is the time to repair the damage we have done to our brothers and sisters throughout nature, and give them more space, so they can heal—and heal us along the way.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“The protection of our natural world is the inoculation we need, right now, before it’s too late. Even if it’s just for selfish reasons—for our own survival—now more than ever, we need the wild.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“We need to build for stability and resilience instead of unfettered growth.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“COVID-19 is yet another reminder that conservation is not just a luxury for rich countries or a romantic ideal. Our very survival depends on our being better members of the biosphere, our larger community.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“SOME WILL SAY it’s all too expensive; that we cannot afford to make these changes. That’s like saying we cannot afford to save ourselves.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“The irony is that the fate of all the species on which our very existence depends is in our hands.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“A degraded environment is a hotbed of all the problems affecting humanity.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“When it comes to the natural world, can awe and wonder and love prevail over economics?”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“No one would be allowed to walk into the Louvre and pick any painting they fancy. Why should we allow people to remove endangered wildlife from areas that we deem so important that we should protect them?”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“What we believe is normal is not necessarily natural; more likely, it’s just the way the world was when we first saw it.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“migratory animals exploit different ecosystems during different seasons, and thus create active boundaries as they travel.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION within a single community is based on the same trend: Energy produced in one successional stage is used within the ecosystem to increase the maturity of the entire system.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“Large predators regulate the abundance of prey and thereby the structure of the ecological community.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“We are abruptly interrupting and most often reversing ecological succession across the biosphere, turning complex ecosystems into simple, homogenous systems with fast turnover rates: That is, we are accelerating and fragmenting the biosphere.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“Natural ecosystems self-organize with an increase of species richness, size and age of organisms, biomass, productivity, efficiency in the recycling of organic matter, three-dimensional structure created by living organisms, and stability, among many other properties.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“Humans want quantity over quality, growth over development, production over protection”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“A healthy mature ecosystem is not like a picture of a single color, but a multicolor quilt that evolves and responds to changes in the environment, and to changes within itself.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“It takes a long time—centuries or millennia—for old ecosystems to assemble”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“We all have heard that the forests are the lungs of our planet, but actually most of the oxygen in the atmosphere has been produced by bacteria and microscopic algae in the ocean.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“The process of taking carbon out of the air and turning it into plant stuff—leaves, wood, or roots—is called carbon sequestration.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“the more mature an ecosystem is, the more inhabitants it has, the more connections between them there are, and the slower it changes—the slower its turnover rate.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“We tend to learn more from our failures than from our successes.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild

“We are in the midst of an existential crisis, not only affecting the survival of our very society, but also about our place in the world.”
― Enric Sala, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild