Cattle Quote by Gregg Easterbrook

Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a…

— Kathy Freston

“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness…

— Nancy Zafris

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

— Johan Eliasch

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a…

— Gisele Bundchen

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

Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the…

— Anton Chekhov

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

— Ramez Naam

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes,…

— Clive Anderson

If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers…

— Paul Polman

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

— Alana Beard

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is…

— John Muir