Climate Quote by Ferdinand von Mueller

We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen

Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled…

— Peter Cundall

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards…

— Henry David Thoreau

You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees,…

— Johan Eliasch

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its…

— George Perkins Marsh

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

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

— Paul Watson

“If the global temperature rises by only four degrees Celsius over the next fifty years—and it’s probably going to do that—then all of the…

— Ned Hayes

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed,…

— Peter Garrett

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen…

— Theodore Roosevelt