"The silencing of the rainforests is a double……" — Jay Griffiths

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• Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big… — E. O. Wilson
• Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body… — Prince Charles
• My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate… — Prince Charles
• Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give… — Frances Ford Seymour
• The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they… — Prince Charles
• ...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not… — Andrew Revkin
• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or… — Ban Ki-moon
• The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that… — Paul Polman
• Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs… — Irene Rosenfeld
• Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the… — Pope Benedict XVI
• It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution,… — Carl Sagan
• You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real… — Unknown Author

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