Quotes About Deforestation

global warming, finding space and resources for the massive increase in the Earth's human population, rapid extinction of other species, the need to develop renewable energy sources, the degradation of the oceans, deforestation and epidemic diseases—just to name a few.

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

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.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

Farther west, Michigan's seemingly inexhaustible stock of white pine—170 billion board feet of it when the first colonists arrived—shrank by 95 percent in just a century.

la estrategia más eficaz para luchar contra el cambio climático consiste en dejar de talar tantos árboles que ya existen.

For the most part, you can get trees to grow only in places where they've already grown, so planting them could help undo the damage caused by deforestation. But there's no practical way to plant enough of them to deal with the problems caused by burning fossil fuels. The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.

The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.

In Indonesia, on the other hand, forests are being cut down to make way for palm trees, which provide the palm oil you'll find in everything from movie-theater popcorn to shampoo. It's one of the main reasons why the country is the world's fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

As the world eats more meat, it accelerates the deforestation in Latin America. More burgers anywhere mean fewer trees there.

In Africa, for example, it's a matter of clearing land to grow food and fuel for the continent's growing population. Nigeria, which has had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, has lost more than 60 percent of its forest cover since 1990, and it's one of the world's biggest exporters of charcoal, which is created by charring wood.

Year by year I see trees disappearing. It's no good people saying they replant: you never find the same number. Each time there are fewer of them to raise their young arms towards the sun once again or shake their tresses in the wind.

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don't stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

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

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

It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.