Biodiversity Quote by Kurt Johnson

“The Zaire River, for example, is 2,900 miles long and has a volume of water second only to that of the Amazon, but its…

— Thomas Sowell

Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more…

— Alex Shoumatoff

I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.

— Jeremy Wade

As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

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

The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it…

— Alex Shoumatoff

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities…

— Roberto Unger

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason…

— Christopher Columbus

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

— Sylvia Earle

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of…

— Ian Somerhalder

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet…

— Lily Cole

The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world's great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on…

— Johan Eliasch