Asia Quote by Mark Shand

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it…

— Alan Thein Durning

Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South Asia, Sub-Saharan…

— M. S. Swaminathan

One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from…

— Al Gore

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

— James Lovelock

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

— Tahir Shah

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making…

— Alan Watts

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the…

— Petra Kelly

Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

— Mildred Cable

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land…

— Willa Cather

There are always funds for the wars and for the very expensive existence of wealthy people. Why not for the water so necessary to…

— Mariana Fulger

At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going…

— Arundhati Roy

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

— James Lovelock