Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“Cut down no trees, for they are home to the birds you adore.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple. — Martin O'Malley 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
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
“When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.” — Bauvard 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
“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
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. — Paul Polman 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
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
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
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
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
“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and… — Nancy Zafris 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
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood… — Gregg Easterbrook 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
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
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
“One tree isn’t more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd) Yeah, but every forest… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them. — Johan Eliasch 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
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to… — Clive Anderson 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
Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions. — Guilherme Leal 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
“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
