Alien Species Quotes

“When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, it allowed tropical species from the waters of the Indian Ocean to move into the Mediterranean. And they did. Yet while 250 species of all kinds established themselves, there has only been one recorded extinction. Similarly, when the Panama Canal joined the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in 1914, biodiversity increased on both sides. North America has morre birds and mammal species than when the Europeans first landed. And the addition of some four thousand plant species has added 20 percent to biodiversity and not, so far as is known, resulted in a single plant species being lost. Likewise, the UK’s twenty-three hundred additional species have not directly caused any known local extinctions.”
― Fred Pearce, The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation

“...no one knows better than I what a good woman your mother was. But she had a weakness for misery and it led to her death. I don’t want the same thing to happen to you.”
― R.L. Martinez, Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018

“Though many pioneer tree species are intolerant of shade and so cause little problem in southern beech forests, Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii has considerable shade tolerance and its wildings invade canopy gaps in indigenous forest, while sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus is the most shade-tolerant tree in the country, is multileadered, coppices, and is very difficult to remove as European foresters know only too well. Fortunately, herbivores find it highly palatable and it is not commonly planted.”
― Peter A. Thomas, Ecology of Woodlands and Forests: Description, Dynamics and Diversity

“- What are you doing, my Love?
- I set fire to the North.
- I'm the dust only.

One of the hardest missions of mine, from now and from my past, and Jinnie, when we had call the spaceship to deal with the awareness of Earth. Mission completed. Then I had to face a death of my future husband from the Golden Terraces. Me, who sent the capsules with the cosmic astronauts. I never told my Mother about.”
― Eve Janson