#forests

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#clear #earth #forests #living #most

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#attitude #compared #continues #could #different

We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#because #book #called #crazy #did

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#close #forests #i #jobs #know

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#combine #continent #deserts #dream #efforts

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#netherlands #territory #whole

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#development #economic #economic development #forests #impact

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#aside #down #economy #forests #gone