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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

The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have…

— E. O. Wilson

“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the 'indicator species'…

— Ralph Metzner

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold…

— E. O. Wilson

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…

— E. O. Wilson

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

— Vivienne Westwood

“Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.”

— Douglas Adams

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

— Nhat Hanh

Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature…

— Lester R. Brown

Drought never brought dearth.

— George Herbert

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the…

— Margaret Atwood