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Quotes About Conservation

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
~ Billy Connolly
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
~ Ronald Reagan
If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
~ Douglas Coupland
Trees cause pollution.
~ Ronald Reagan
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
~ John Muir
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.
~ John Muir
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
~ Clive Anderson
You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
~ Donella Meadows
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
~ Hilary Benn
Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
~ Colin Tudge
You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.
~ Richard St. Barbe Baker
I speak for the trees!
~ Dr. Seuss
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
~ E. F. Schumacher
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.
~ Jonathan Weiner
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
~ Felix Dennis
Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
~ Sam Ewing
The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree.
~ Ken Caldeira
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
~ Julia Hill
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 means cutting down every last tree in the state.
~ Helen Chenoweth-Hage
They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
~ Kim Wilde
Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.
~ Conan O'Brien
The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan