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Forests Quotes by Wangari Maathai
- But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I…
- I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need…
- It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
More Forests Quotes
- In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him… — Charles Baudelaire
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a… — Hal Borland
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this… — Bill Bradley
- I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. — A. Whitney Brown
- I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic,… — Nicolas Cage
- The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away… — James Cameron
- When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an… — Thomas Carlyle
- The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. — Willa Cather