Country Quote by Wangari Maathai

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed…

— Jane Goodall

If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms of biodiversity…

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Isaac Asimov

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

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists.…

— Corneille Ewango

I see how these beautiful forests are now open to destruction because of technology. Companies are able to get into more and more remote…

— Julia Butterfly Hill

In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to…

— Wangari Maathai

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

No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.

— Jair Bolsonaro

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is…

— John Muir

Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to…

— Rajiv Shah