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TREE/FOREST QUOTES

Enjoy GP's page of quotes about trees and forests, including quotations about rainforest quotes, quotes about forest destruction, clear cutting, quotes about being in the forest, tree quotes, and forest quotations.

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I'll keep adding to this page of quotes about forests, rainforests, and trees over time. If you know of a great tree/forest quote, you can email it to me.

 

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SERIOUS TREE/FOREST QUOTES

"Few consumers realize that the cheap prices they pay are directly linked to the exploitation of some of the poorest people on earth and the destruction of their forests."

Andy White

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'"

John F. Kennedy

"He plants trees to benefit another generation."

Caecilius Statius

"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

John Muir

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

John Muir

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Henry David Thoreau

"Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood."

Chinese Proverb

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Martin Luther

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."

Saint Bernard

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

William Blake

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

Willa Cather from O Pioneers!

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw

"The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit."

Cicero

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rainforest with respect, man will become extinct."

Peter Benchley

"That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean, because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast."

Michael Berryman

"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest."

James Lovelock

"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, Outside Magazine, interviewed on Living on Earth

"In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change."

Daniel Howden, writing in The Independent

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."

Hal Borland

"It was strangely like war. They attacked the forest as if it were an enemy to be pushed back from the beachheads, driven into the hills, broken into patches, and wiped out. Many operators thought they were not only making lumber but liberating the land from the trees..."

Murray Morgan, from the book The Last Wilderness

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come."

Chinese proverb

"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"

Ronald Reagan

 

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CATEGORY:  ENVIRONMENT, CORPORATIONS — 10.DEC.2014

Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen Democracy Now

The US Role in Illegally Logging Peru's Forests — More than half of Peru is still covered by tropical rainforest—an area the size of Texas—which plays a crucial ecosystem role and is a significant carbon sink. A new report documents how more than 20 US companies have imported millions of dollars in illegal wood from the Peruvian Amazon since 2008. Guest is Julia Urrunaga, Peru programs director for the Environmental Investigation Agency and author of the new report, "The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru's Concession System Are Destroying the Future of Its Forests."
Watch  |  Download/listen   6:59

GP comment:  You can see why these logs are coveted—they're huge compared to the re-growth trees available for lumbering in the US. Nonetheless, this is just another example of how most people in the West are fine with not asking too many questions about where wonderful (but illegally sourced) products come from.

Original Show Pub Date: 08.Dec.2014

CATEGORY:  SPECIES, GENETIC ENGINEERING — 04.DEC.2014

Rating: 2 of 5 - OK; if you've got the time... Quirks and Quarks

Genetically Modified Chestnuts — A century ago, the American Chestnut was a tremendously important species in the forests of Eastern North America, representing more than a quarter of all forest trees in a swath from Georgia to Ontario. But a fungus introduced on imported Asian chestnut trees turned out to be catastrophic for the American Chestnut, killing billions of trees and essentially wiping out the species by the 1950s. Breeding a blight-resistant tree has proved laborious and difficult, so now a research team has developed a genetically modified American Chestnut that uses a gene from wheat to resist the effects of the fungus. Lead researcher William Powell explains.
Go to page  |  Download/listen   10:08

GP comment:  As GMO applications go, this would seem to be one of the less objectionable ones. But beware anytime a GMO proponent says "this is for the people and for the environment." And Powell's additional assertion that GM technology is more targeted and sensible than standard hybridization is completely specious.

Original Show Pub Date: 22.Nov.2014

CATEGORY:  ENVIRONMENT — 20.NOV.2014

Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen Radio EcoShock

Stolen Future, Broken Present — David Collings discusses the epochal environmental crisis that is unfolding. Climate change is a centerpiece, but this is a many-faceted problem with no easy solutions. Overcoming the psychology that fathered the problem may not be possible, but it's still worth trying. ~~ Then Martin Persson explains how tropical deforestation is still stripping the planet—to provide products for us, the consumers in rich countries. ~~ Finally, Olli Tammilehto asks whether we can we survive a system that rewards the rich with a license to commit ecocide?
Go to page  |  Download/listen   1:00:00

GP comment:  Yep, the problem is one that is internal to the human makeup. It is indeed important that we keep trying to minimize the damage—it will make life more pleasant for longer. But we should always make the basis for discussion facts, not hopium.

Original Show Pub Date: 12.Nov.2014

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