Quotes about Deforestation

Domesticated cows deliver more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than do all the world's vehicles—autos, trucks, trains, aircraft, ships—combined.

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.

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

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.