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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens QUOTES

1 " species have the potential to sink or save the ecosystem, depending on the circumstances. Knowing that we must preserve ecosystems with as many of their interacting species as possible defines our challenge in no uncertain terms. It helps us to focus on the ecosystem as an integrated functioning unit, and it deemphasizes the conservation of single species. Surely this more comprehensive approach is the way to go. "

― Douglas W. Tallamy , Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

2 " Knowledge generates interest, and interest generates compassion. "

― Douglas W. Tallamy , Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

3 " Your leaf litter can be home to a rich assortment of native plants while it is fertilizing, mulching, and watering your land. "

― Douglas W. Tallamy , Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

4 " We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated. "

― Douglas W. Tallamy , Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

5 " If we humans are capable of turning hundreds of millions of acres of rainforest into depleted grasslands, and extirpating millions of buffalo from the plains, and billions of passenger pigeons from the skies and cod from the North Atlantic, we are also capable of returning natives to our gardens. "

― Douglas W. Tallamy , Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens