Deforestation Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
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 on the planet… — Prince Charles
My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the… — Prince Charles
Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort… — Frances Ford Seymour
The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than… — Prince Charles
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or… — Andrew Revkin
Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or… — Ban Ki-moon
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their… — Paul Polman
Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business to slow and… — Irene Rosenfeld
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral… — Pope Benedict XVI
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid… — Carl Sagan
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time… — Patrick Symmes
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded. — Bruno Stagno Ugarte
If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25… — Moby
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet,… — Bernd Heinrich
I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's… — Chris Kilham
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge. — Jay Griffiths
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for… — Clive Anderson
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been… — Theodore Roosevelt
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. — Heather Mills

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