John Burnside

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

Scottish Writer

Johan Rockstrom

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Environmentalist

Paul Hawken

Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.

American Environmentalist

Matt Gonzalez

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

American Politician

Andrew Zimmern

I've spent time in the coastal Carolinas and have seen what small business development has done to maintain the wetlands and reestablish the fisheries and secure jobs for the people that make their living off the water.

American Critic

Peter Navarro

In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.

American Economist

Terri Irwin

Crocodiles are an apex predator and crucial to the ecosystem, keeping waterways and wetlands healthy. Crocodiles eradicate the weak, sick, and injured wildlife, leaving only the healthy to prosper.

American Scientist

Frances Beinecke

Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

American Activist

Amanda Gorman

I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black 'hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.

American Poet

Hope Jahren

The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.

Wetlands are crucial for the environment; they're often protected areas due to their role in biodiversity and flood control.

Environmental Importance

Use 'wetland' when talking about ecology, geography, and conservation, rather than just bodies of water.

Contextual Usage

Emphasize the variety of life; wetlands are not just water but support a complex ecosystem with many organisms.

Habitat Diversity

 and why it's important to keep them around. Habitat destruction is the number one problem for frog populations around the world. There are seven billion humans on the planet, and we compete with frogs for habitat. We build cities, suburbs, and farms on top of frog habitat and chop forests and drain the wetlands

Why are frogs...

 this amazing wetland that is home to dozens of different species of animals and birds if you told me this was water from a sewage plant i absolutely would not believe you you know the technology is really um very advanced uh we clean the water

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 that we hold in this country. We need to ensure that these wetlands and forests that are our best and greatest and most critical defense against global warming are protected, and we are not releasing that carbon bomb into the atmosphere.

Garth Lenz: The true...

 largely safe from timber harvest in agriculture this allows crystal-clear water filtered by sandy soils to create one of the world's most pristine and productive wetlands albeit two countries away besides being something of a

Saving One of the Most...

 square kilometers it's one of the world's biggest wetlands for a few months this water world is left to nature for some it's paradise fish can now colonize areas that were recently grassland for just a few weeks they can

Animals on the Wetlands...

 the wetlands and waterways of our world found on all continents except antarctica waterborne bladderworts are free-floating plants that can grow up to two meters in length as blood awards often live in

The Fastest Carnivorous...

 to Ground Zero it's fragile wetlands and beaches are oiled and wildlife faces possible mass die-offs but on top of the ecological disaster unique cultures of the people living in Louisiana's bayous

Oil Spill Threatens...

 every individual can make to reversing global warming. And how we manage land is also very important. Protecting forests and wetlands safeguards, expands and creates new carbon sinks

100 solutions to reverse...

 things are not well behind that's them in nearly 50 years since this picture was taken half of the world's wetlands beat beds and tropical rainforests have

Rediscovering ourselves...

 blink six seconds and six percent of our walk is through crops peat bugs are large stores of water and carbon and are home to special wetland wildlife