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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

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

You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over…

— Patrick Symmes

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

— Paul Polman

Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be…

— Gregg Easterbrook

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

— Ramez Naam

Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural…

— Winnie Byanyima

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

— Jay Griffiths

“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

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

— George Perkins Marsh

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