Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. — Paul Polman 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
“We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I want to find more ways of planting trees and helping fight against deforestation. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
“Since the Goddess always has been honored in sacred groves, it is understandable that patriarchs, then as now, leaned toward deforestation.” — Tom Robbins 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
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
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
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
“China has gone on a logging orgy outside its borders, often illegally, to procure logs from Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and… — Lester R. Brown 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
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
“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
We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves,… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are… — Bernd Heinrich 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
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
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
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
“Across the road from my cabin was a huge clear-cut--hundreds of acres of massive spruce stumps interspersed with tiny Douglas firs--products of… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“the former head of Yale’s School of Forestry writes in the introduction to his latest book, The Bridge at the Edge of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“When a coal company gets a permit to strip-mine, it literally attacks the mountain with all manner of heavy equipment. First it… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics. — Ramez Naam 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
Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods -… — Gisele Bundchen 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
If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
