First time Quote by Scott Wallace

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 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

The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility -…

— Michael Somare

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

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

Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon…

— Jeff Goodell

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

— Clive Anderson

“Dan Yakir is a scientist at the Weizmann Institute who manages the FluxNet research station at Yatir. He says that the forest not only…

— Dan Senor

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests…

— Prince Charles

The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead…

— Prince Charles

In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of…

— Thom Hartmann

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

— Robert Jackson