Quotes About Rain Forests

#1. Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.

Douglas Adams

#2. The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

E. O. Wilson

#3. The rain forests of the Congo Basin contained so much water that they caused their own weather system, and were known as the Lungs of Africa.

Brad Thor

#4. They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Isaac Asimov

#5. Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

Robert C. Solomon

#6. The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

E. O. Wilson

#7. The world isn't necessarily going to explode. There will just be vast change. There is hope. It is in the rain forests, the healing plants from there, and in sex and the children who are being born. They have different strains of DNA. They aren't really humans. So they will make the difference.

Francesca Lia Block

#8. I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

Robert Sirico

#9. I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down.
I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth.
I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with.

Charles Manson

#10. The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

James Howard Kunstler

#11. The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

James Lovelock

#12. In the rain-forests of Brutha's subconscious the butterfly of doubt emerged and flapped an experimental wing, all unaware of what chaos theory has to say about this sort of thing ...

Terry Pratchett

#13. You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe.

Alan Moore

#14. In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

Eban Goodstein

#15. We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

Nhat Hanh

#16. The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

Alex Shoumatoff

#17. Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

Vivienne Westwood

#18. The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

Dan Quayle

#19. 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

#20. I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

#21. Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!

Joe McNally

#22. Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

Kristin Kreuk

#23. When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And that could have happened to me, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her.

John Green

#24. I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

Haruki Murakami

#25. I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

Lorraine Hansberry

#26. The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

Ludwig Von Mises

#27. Your will to success supersedes all other wills.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#29. After I read David Suzuki's book, I took salmon from my dinner plate and I buried it in the woods, hoping to assist the growth of a large tree.

Ned Hayes

#30. Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Henry Rollins

#31. Not being a natural songwriter ... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Bonnie Raitt

#32. I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

Lana Parrilla

#33. We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States ... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

Haley Barbour

#34. The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence ...

Pablo Neruda

#35. How can we all grow?

Marcus Buckingham

#36. October's gold is dim - the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

David Gray

#37. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

#38. The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

Henry David Thoreau