Burning Quote by E. O. Wilson

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

— E. O. Wilson

“Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

— Edward O. Wilson

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…

— Hazel Henderson

Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut…

— Chris Kilham

The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead…

— Prince Charles

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

— Paul Watson

Save the rainforest for your loved ones

— Vivienne Westwood

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

— Phil Harding

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

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

— Chris Kilham

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

— Johan Eliasch

We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.

— Rohini Nilekani