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  • My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead. -- Prince Charles
  • Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments. -- Chris Kilham
  • Save the rainforest for your loved ones -- Vivienne Westwood
  • So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. -- Prince Philip
  • Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases? -- Dana Rohrabacher
  • 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 world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain. -- Jane Goodall
  • I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged. -- Ian Cohen
  • Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest. -- Miguel A. Altieri
  • When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will. -- Jodi Picoult
  • When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff. -- Max Schneider
  • Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. -- Richard Lamm
  • You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation... -- Patrick Symmes
  • When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens. -- David Foreman
  • I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!' -- Vivienne Westwood
  • No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us? -- David Platt
  • 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 toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday. -- Thom Hartmann
  • I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge. -- Klaus Topfer
  • I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. -- Dasha Zhukova
  • I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?" -- Lindsay Faith Rech
  • I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. -- Jeff Bridges
  • We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do. -- Chris Kilham
  • I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one. -- Bjork
  • Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin. -- Richard Preston
  • If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world. -- David Quammen
  • It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it. -- Lily Cole
  • When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species. -- Moby
  • You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that. -- John Collison
  • I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest. -- Katie Cleary
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