18 Quotes by Douglas Tallamy

even if you seem like the only one in all of North America who uses more natives than aliens, wildlife will be better off for your efforts.

a history measured in centuries is the tiniest drop in the proverbial bucket of evolutionary time.

If you are at all interested in contribution to the conservation of local animals, or in enjoying the wonders of nature right at home, planting one or more oaks is an awfully good way to do those things. - from The Nature of Oaks

if we designed our buildings the way we design our gardens, with only aesthetics in mind, they would fall down.

Most yards can support many more trees than they currently do, particularly near the borders of the property, without losing the open feel near the house that people enjoy.

If you are concerned about the human impact on our plant's climate, reducing the amount of lawn you mow each week is one of the best things you can do to reduce your family's carbon dioxide emissions. On average, mowing your lawn for one hour produces as much pollution as driving 650 miles. Moreover, we now burn 800 million gallons of gas each year in our dirty little lawnmower engines to keep our lawns at bay.

Plants are not optional on this planet. With few exceptions, neither we or anything else, can live without them.

All too often the first step in the suburbanization of an area is to bulldoze the plant assemblages native to our neighborhoods and then to replace them with large manicured lawns bordered by a relatively few species of popular ornamentals from other continents.

If we need space to live, we take it -- all of it -- and if that means filling in a ...pond or cutting down a woodlot, then so be it. We feel completely justified in sending the plants and animals that depend on those habitats off to make do someplace else. This is partly because...until recently, there has always been someplace else for nature to thrive. But no longer.