Nature Quote by Mark Schapiro

We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian…

— Guilherme Leal

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

“That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter-gatherers and…

— Charles C. Mann

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

— Isaac Asimov

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

— Ciro Guerra

“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious…

— Willa Cather

The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act…

— Ian Cohen

“The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations…

— Enos A. Mills

“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots…

— Jim Robbins

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted…

— Julius Sterling Morton