- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Chain Quotes
Nature's balance, in quotable form.
These quotes use the food chain as a lens on environmental fragility, from oceanic predators pushed toward collapse to elk overrunning prairies once their predators disappear. They connect naturally with quotes about Alarming trends in nature.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020