Rainforest Quotes - Page 2

• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Rivers, Risk

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• Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

  Hazel Henderson

  Country, Slave Labor, Burning

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• I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.

  Stephen Fry

  Habitat, May, Able

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.160, The Overlook Press

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• 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

  Fashion, Thinking, Climate

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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

  Country, Tree, Three

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• 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

  Air, Guitar, Cities

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• 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

  Issues, Political, Climate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  House, Guatemala, Sticks

  Interview with Mathias Augustyniak, Michael Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  David Suzuki

  Mountain Ranges, Years, Brain

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• 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

  Lying, Reading, World

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.

  Robert Muchamore

  Jobs, Couple, Kids

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• I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

  Jeff Bridges

  Team, America, Groups

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• The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

  Mark Lynas

  Years, Worst Case Scenario, Climate

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• We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

  David Attenborough

  Moving, Important, Energy

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• From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

  Pope Francis

  Confidence, Country, Children

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• 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

  Coffee, Drinking, Adventure

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• When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters who we immediately formed a bond with. We had two instant roadies, Spider & Richard, who helped with every move of our musical equipment. We settled into our house on the edge of the rainforest that eventually became a portable studio. We started rehearsing and booked the Lahaina Civic Auditorium for a full moon concert starring MU and a local band The Space Patrol.

  Merrell Fankhauser

  Brother, Moving, Moon

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• The rainforest is being cut down at alarming rates, and orangutans are losing their habitats and are being killed, as a result, faster than we can save them, but there is a solution. In Borneo, small parcels of rainforest land can be a lifeline for orangutans so long as they link together protected forests, enabling animals to move safely over greater distances.

  Katie Cleary

  Distance, Moving, Cutting

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Order, Oil, Differences

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Ocean, Loss, Personal Transformation

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• 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

  Rip, Heart, Fire

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• The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Science, Simple

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• 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

  Fall, Ice, Water

  "Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Loss, Emotional, Thinking

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