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
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
“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
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
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
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
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson 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
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
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
Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields,… — Miguel A. Altieri 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
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
“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
The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I… — Max Schneider Copy Share Image
No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God… — David Platt 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
When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters… — Merrell Fankhauser 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
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
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
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
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
