Forest Quote by Winnie Byanyima

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

— Isaac Asimov

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been…

— Karl Marx

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

— Johan Eliasch

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

— Kim Jong-un

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in…

— Johan Eliasch

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

— Thomas Jefferson

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The…

— Bruce Babbitt

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

— Susan George

Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that…

— Helen Chenoweth-Hage

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

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw…

— Bruce Babbitt

Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value…

— Paul Polman