In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“Cut down no trees, for they are home to the birds you adore.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them. — Johan Eliasch Copy Share Image
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate… The real story is… — Patrick Symmes Copy Share Image
Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn't stop me from wanting to be one - to just… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain… — Chico Mendes Copy Share Image
“The extent of forests around the world has declined by an estimated 16.4 million km2 (36% of the historical extent) over the… — Shaun C. Cunningham Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example,… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
One problem is that we are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. And that's where the greenhouse gases come from, by and large,… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest… — Bruno Stagno Ugarte Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would… — Moby Copy Share Image
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble… — Moby Copy Share Image
Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
