Rainforests Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. — Sylvia Earle
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
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
Tropical rainforests [are] the only place you can go nowadays and not get â€˜friended.â€™ — Rives
Weâ€™re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so weâ€™re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and weâ€™re doing all… — Morgan Freeman
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
The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask. — Mark Plotkin
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to… — David Suzuki
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils… — Richard Lamm
Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut or… — Chris Kilham

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