“Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do. — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“After weeks in the forest, the woods embrace us as their own, and the wilderness hums softly, attuned to our souls.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya 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
“That evening we sat around the campfire. The clouds that had gathered overhead all day broke up and the moonlight shimmered on… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe… — Ian Cohen Copy Share Image
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used… — David Suzuki 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
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
It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
“Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger 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 will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“When we came out of the cookhouse, we found the boy's father, the Indian man who had been grazing the horses in… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
“I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers. He made his policy… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet… — David Grann Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
“The rainforest was a huge, living organism, and the narrow path they followed was one of its capillaries. They traveled along it… — Richard Tillotson 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
“If science is defined or understood as a mode of seeking knowledge, a means of interpreting nature in a way that can… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest… — Michael Somare Copy Share Image
I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image