Rain Forests Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
— E. O. Wilson
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We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
— Nhat Hanh
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The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.
— Dan Quayle
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In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud…
— Eban Goodstein
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no…
— Robert C. Solomon
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They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping…
— Isaac Asimov
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If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
— James Lovelock
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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
— Vivienne Westwood
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and…
— E. O. Wilson
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of…
— E. O. Wilson
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Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes…
— Francesca Lia Block
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You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of…
— Gene Wolfe
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist.…
— Dennis Lehane
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Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into…
— Scott Westerfeld
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest…
— Paul Hawken
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The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a…
— James Howard Kunstler
Who Wrote These Rain Forests Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Rain Forests Quotes as follows: