Burning Quote by Hazel Henderson

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

— E. O. Wilson

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

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

— E. O. Wilson

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it…

— Alan Thein Durning

We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can…

— David Attenborough

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

— Isaac Asimov

The problem is the total opening of borders and allowing the law of the jungle to prevail: The further a company goes today to…

— Marine Le Pen

Save the rainforest for your loved ones

— Vivienne Westwood

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

— Sreenivasan

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of…

— Charles A. Reich

If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always…

— William Cecil Dampier