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“Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.”

Source Accounts Forests Agriculture Deforestation Tropics

Author:Ramez Naam

“If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.”

Ifs World Want Needs Able Grows Technology Planets Forests Around The World New Technology Acres

Author:Ramez Naam

“Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.”

“I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.”

World Moving Guy Edges Forests Weather Caves Cliffs

Author:Dean Potter

“The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.”

Earth Russia Forests Lungs Brazil

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.”

“My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.”

Mean Father Term Rich Movement India Plant Disappear Forests Hills Streams Peasants Fodder Firewood

Author:Vandana Shiva

“When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.”

People Has Beens Justice Economic Movement Fields Activity Survival Rivers Environmental Forests Destroyed Stolen Our Environment Biodiversity

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.”

Speech Angry Forests Ran Troll Hogwarts

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I want to walk in the forest, I want to walk in the fields, I just want to lie down on the grass and feel the sun against my skin. I want to be able to hold my family close to me and not have someone tell me time's up.”

Want Feels Art Home Able Lying Walks Sun Fields Garden My Family Skins Tired Plant Forests Grass

Author:Leonard Peltier

“Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly miss people and enjoying a good laugh with my peers.”

“I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.”

Earth Imagine Forests Desert Hometown

Author:Li Bingbing

“I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.”

Firsts Hands Film Battle Independent Forests African American Rapper Brooklyn Independent Film

Author:Nia Long

“Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.”

Way Made Half Cutting Tree Paper Destruction Meaningful Forests Addresses

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.”

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Author:Ellen Page

“I think a lot of people in my circle are thinking that way or see the movie [Into the Forest] and then really think that way. I think it's hopefully tapping into sort of a consciousness right now in regards to our society's relationship with the environment and our own and our disconnect from it, myself included.”

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Author:Ellen Page

“I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.”

Feels Believe Character Feelings Felt Can Do Havens Understood Scripts Passionate Connected Forests Fallen Lap Thirteen Wrestler

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“This film [ Into the Forest], it was special for that reason, because as an actress, you usually don't get to work with other actresses because you are usually up for the same roles, and you don't get to hang out that much.”

Reason Film Roles Special Actresses Forests Hanging Out

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].”

People Knows Way I Can Force Walks Powerful Forever Knowing Alive Streets Green Forests Freeways

Author:Andy Kim

“I just know I was part of a moment, and everyone showed up with love. I'm just blown away by this all but you can feel it in listening [Forest Green], and it's hard to listen 'cos sometimes life distracts you or you run away from listening. We didn't know what we were doing.”

Knows Feels Sometimes Hard Moments Running Listening Green Forests Running Away Sometimes In Life Blown Away

Author:Andy Kim

“I think outdoors has been my second home. My parents wouldn't be like, "Go and do a puzzle," they'd be like, "Hey, there's a forest across the street. You need to go play in it."”

Thinking Needs Has Beens Play Home Parent Streets Forests Hey Puzzles

Author:Serinda Swan

“It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.”

Thinking World Should Firsts Stills Book Stories Beautiful Reading Environment Forests Disconnected Personal Relationships Beautiful Books

Author:Ellen Page

“We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again.”

Film Process Seeing Woods Forests Goodbye Saying Goodbye Wrapping

Author:Ellen Page

“I remember having been with this book [Into the Forest] for a long time, and I remember the moment that she [Patricia Rozema] sent me the script and what it was like to read it for the first time. I just was so blown away by how she managed to capture the story and their relationship to each other, and the nuances of that.”

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Author:Ellen Page

“Ellen [Page] and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first heard about the film [Into the Forest], I was excited to get a chance to work with one of my peers because it's usually one or the other. You don't get to work with all of the other actors that you're usually competing with.”

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Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.”

Play Able Together Film Pages Worthy Forests Opponents Tennis

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both [with Ellen Page] loved the script and the book [Into the Forest], which I read after I read the script, and highlighted it and dog-eared it to craziness.”

Book Hands Dog Pages Depth Scripts Forests Craziness

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.”

Forests Hardest Mess Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I also loved that there [in Into the Forest] was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.”

Men Humans Stills Moments Beautiful Film Strong Balance Weakness Forests Vulnerable Broke Survivor Moments Of Weakness

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I love that this film [Into the Forest] has a balance.”

Film Balance Forests

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.”

Feels Trying Modern Changed Forests Genre Ballet Crystals Modern Dance

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.”

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Author:Kathy Freston

“I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.”

Children Ideas Tree Land Rivers Leaving Forests Legacy My Children Magnificent Old Fashioned Stunning

Author:Val Kilmer

“Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.”

Men Way Looks Lying Next Given Sleep Love Is Issues Baby Mountain Ocean Window Caring Breathe Lovely Forests Streams Visuals New Ways Toes Sheets My Baby I Smile Lovely Man

Author:Taylor Dane

“I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.”

Kind Character Running Turns Animal Blood Forests

Author:Jonathan Ames

“Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.”

Climate Climate Change Productions Oil Forests Burning Smoke Atmosphere Native Quantity Immense Palms Removal Timber Deforestation Oil Production Palm Oil

Author:Katie Cleary

“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.”

Long Together Moving Animal Results Greater Cutting Land Losing Solutions Distance Rate Forests Faster Links Protected Enabling Habitat Parcel Rainforest Lifelines Orangutans Borneo

Author:Katie Cleary

“I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.”

Ifs Knows Sound Inspire Ocean Exciting Forests

Author:Laura Ramsey

“I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know they're trying to be clever, but they're not.”

Knows Trying I Can Walks Clever Forests Hawks

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I decided, "Well, I'll be a forest ranger!" Because I thought, "I'll get to go out in the woods, I'll be in the forest, and I can sit in a tower and watch for forest fires and play my guitar. That's what I want to do!" Well, I was an idiot, of course.”

Want Wells I Can Play Courses Watches Fire Decided Guitar Woods Forests Idiot Towers Rangers Forest Fires

Author:Keith Carradine

“The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.”

Children Art Important Would Be Social Attention Seeing Tree Share Position Forests Confusion Outcomes Disposition Social Life Science Religion Clamor

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.”

Wells Mean Water Percent Resources Areas Gold Including Fishes Oil East Russia Locals Forests Gas Territory Eastern Tin Oil And Gas Siberia

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.”

Tree Awareness Appreciation Wide Forests Angle Lenses Limbs Tree Limbs

Author:Doc Childre

“The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds.”

Ifs Humans Ideas Left Race Atheism Worst Positive Atheism Seeds Forests Triumph Human Race Bans

Author:Ellen Battelle Dietrick

“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”

“If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.”

Ifs Would Be Song Bird Lonely Forests Lonely Places

Author:John James Audubon

“Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.”

Made Country Beautiful Courses Tree Forests Made It Artificial Countryside Beautiful Country English Countryside

Author:Freeman Dyson

“I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.”

Art Mother Found Study Program Russia Forests Leningrad

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.”

Years Humans Natural Attention Fields Towns Forests Academic Possums

Author:Bill Mollison

“Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.”

Should Lasts Left Cutting Forests Wilderness

Author:Bill Mollison

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