Reed Noss: Quotes about nature

“Among the common changes in forests over the past two centuries are loss of old forests, simplification of forest structure, decreasing size of forest patches, increasing isolation of patches, disruption of natural fire regimes, and increased road building, all of which have had negative effects on native biodiversity.”

Reed Noss

[Assessing and monitoring forest biodiversity: a suggested framework and indicators, Forest Ecology and Management, 115, 2–3, 22 March 1999, 135–146, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112798003946] (quote from p. 135)

Nature , Change , Loss , Past

“Endless fascination with nature—nothing more and nothing less—is the key to enlisting people in the fight to save biodiversity.”

Reed Noss

p. xv https://books.google.com/books/about/Forgotten_Grasslands_of_the_South.html?id=9ZOaZZbukBwC&pg=PR15
Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation (2012)

People , Nature , Fight

“Nature no longer entertains us when conserving it becomes inconvenient.”

Reed Noss

[Toward a Pro‐Life Politics, Conservation Biology, 15, 4, August 2001, 827–828, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015004827.x]

Nature

“… We cannot get big grants to do field work anymore. … Will the next generation of conservation biologists be nothing but a bunch of computer nerds with no firsthand knowledge of natural history? … The naturalists are dying off and have few heirs.”

Reed Noss

[The naturalists are dying off, Conservation Biology, 10, 1, February 1996, 1–3, 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10010001.x] (quote from p. 1)

History , Nature , Knowledge

“The main lesson that emerges from this volume is that sea level rise, combined with human population growth, urban development in coastal areas, and landscape fragmentation, poses an enormous threat to human and natural well-being in Florida. How Floridians respond to sea level rise will offer lessons, for better or worse, for other low-lying regions worldwide.”

Reed Noss

[Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Florida’s unenviable position with respect to sea level rise, Climatic Change, 107, 1–2, July 2011, 1–16, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-011-0109-6] (quote from p. 1)

Lying , Nature , Sea