Rainforest Quotes
43 quotes by 36 authors
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck…
— David Attenborough
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I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
— Bjork
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
— Jeff Bridges
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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
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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
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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
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Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?
— Dana Rohrabacher
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The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast scale. Rainforests store…
— Prince Charles
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For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural…
— Kevin Rudd
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The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our…
— Michael Somare
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It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system…
— Ian Cohen
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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
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The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the…
— Mark Lynas
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Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
— Sylvia Earle
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So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
— Prince Philip
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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
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No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word…
— David Platt
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Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest…
— Miguel A. Altieri
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It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to…
— Hazel Henderson
Who Wrote These Rainforest Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 43 Rainforest Quotes, led by these top contributors: