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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.
- Hugh Ross
The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.
- Bill Gates
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.
- Bill Gates
How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
- Henry David Thoreau
I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!
- Dr. Seuss
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.
- Henry David Thoreau