Quotes
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan
Species Loss
Extinction makes us think of dinosaurs meeting their end 65 million years ago. Most scientists agree we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction in the history of earth. We are having species becoming extinct at a faster rate then it would happen in nature. Human activities are the key to most extinctions that we are witnessing. Such things as climate change, sprawling development, pollution, deforestation, and over-harvesting on nature's gifts are the main contributors to the problem.
Species are being forced to migrate because of habitats being destroyed by human activities. But many species don't have a place to go. Think rabbits in suburban yards. Rabbits attract coyotes, and mountain lions. Even bears find mountain homes an easy place to get a meal because houses are taking the place of previous food sources. An oil drilling operation takes up more space than the just the derrick itself, for example.
There are around 2 million different species on our planet. In rough numbers then that means between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur every year. "Extinction" means there are no more...never, no offspring, none to take the place of the ones we let die.There can be little debate that there is, in fact, a very serious biodiversity crisis.
The flower a tethered butterfly.
Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan
Species Loss
Extinction makes us think of dinosaurs meeting their end 65 million years ago. Most scientists agree we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction in the history of earth. We are having species becoming extinct at a faster rate then it would happen in nature. Human activities are the key to most extinctions that we are witnessing. Such things as climate change, sprawling development, pollution, deforestation, and over-harvesting on nature's gifts are the main contributors to the problem.
Species are being forced to migrate because of habitats being destroyed by human activities. But many species don't have a place to go. Think rabbits in suburban yards. Rabbits attract coyotes, and mountain lions. Even bears find mountain homes an easy place to get a meal because houses are taking the place of previous food sources. An oil drilling operation takes up more space than the just the derrick itself, for example.
There are around 2 million different species on our planet. In rough numbers then that means between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur every year. "Extinction" means there are no more...never, no offspring, none to take the place of the ones we let die.There can be little debate that there is, in fact, a very serious biodiversity crisis.
Dodo Birds were very common until they became extinct. Woman looking at taxidermy Dodo Bird. Compare the size of the woman and the bird.
The birds were first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507 The birds were first seen by Portuguese sailors and were exterminated by humans The dodo was extinct by 1681, The dodo is frequently cited as one of the most well-known examples of human-induced extinction and also serves as a symbol of obsolescence'