Rainforest Quotes

43 quotes by 36 authors

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
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
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. — Jeff Bridges
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. — Sylvia Earle
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. — Prince Philip
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
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
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
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

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