Chico Mendes Quotes

• At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

  Chico Mendes

  Rain, Fighting, Tree

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• I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

  Chico Mendes

  Long, Heard

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