Good and bad Quote by Nancy Zafris

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

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

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

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

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

— Paul Polman

“Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

— Edward O. Wilson

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

— Johan Eliasch

The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an…

— Paul Polman

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Plant trees. It’s a way to improve the future from the ground up.”

— Jarod Kintz

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Ramez Naam