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“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.”

Way Should Wells Littles Country Whole Individual Gains Destruction Conservative Criminals Forests Well Being Permit Preservation

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.”

Kind Young Animal Progress Gains Letters Critics Forests Maturity Republic Bud Goats Deer Robbing Subsistence Shrubs

Book:The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

“the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.”

Source: Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

“Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.”

Doe Team Mountain Gains Advantage Guides Locals Forests Unfamiliar

Author:Sun Tzu

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

“I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.”

Knows Trying Would Be Eye Able Lost Language Born Teach Knowing Wise Members Gains Species Forests Apes Gorillas Lost Ones

Book:Last Chance To See

Source: Last Chance To See

“Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.”

Way Done Loses Destiny Gains Forests Mysterious Life Changing Immense Power To Change Posse

Author:Jack Zipes