Able Quote by Henry Ford

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get…

— Henry Ford

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

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

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or…

— Wendell Berry

Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of our waters,…

— Jim Justice

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next;…

— William Howard Taft

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live…

— Wendell Berry

We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what…

— Hope Jahren

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

— Wes Jackson

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no…

— Jaggi Vasudev

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been…

— Karl Marx

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

— George Perkins Marsh