QUOTE ABOUT DEFORESTATION

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan

“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” – Chief Seattle

“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axeman who destroys it.” – Gautama Buddha

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money.” – Native American saying

“The loss of forests is the loss of our planet’s lungs.” – Edward O. Wilson

“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 D. Roosevelt

“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.” – Wangari Maathai

“The forest disappears! Those axe blows are echoes of destruction, not commerce.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Deforestation is changing our planet’s climate, harming millions of people and threatening countless species.” – Greenpeace

“We are custodians of the Earth, and have a duty to leave it healthier and more biodiverse than we found it.” – Sir David Attenborough

“The earth has enough resources to meet everyone’s needs, but not greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Every day, we are losing forests the size of 48 football fields. Can we afford to keep this up?” – Leonardo DiCaprio

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson INSPIRATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTES

“The forest is not a resource for us. It is life itself.” – Evo Morales

“Deforestation is not just an environmental issue; it’s a social justice issue.” – Vandana Shiva

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

“Forests are the world’s air conditioning system—the lungs of the planet—and we are on the verge of switching it off.” – Prince Charles

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Destroying rainforests for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” – E.O. Wilson

“When we destroy something created by man, we call it vandalism. When we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.” – Ed Begley Jr.

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” – Ansel Adams

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek proverb

“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in a man’s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.” – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“If a tree dies, plant another one in its place.” – Carolus Linnaeus