Acres Quote by Ronald Reagan

For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original…

— Julia Hill

Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw…

— Frank Howard Clark

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

— Evaristo Nugkuag

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed…

— John Steinbeck

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow,…

— John Muir

[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands…

— Madison Grant

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was…

— Rush Limbaugh

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded,…

— Natalie Angier

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

— Isaac Asimov