“What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.” TryingHoursTreeMinutesBearsPercentHundredOur TimeFrogs Author:Stephen Fry
“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.” YearsRunningCoursesFiveTreeFieldsPercentIdealsYears AgoTrialsFive YearsNestsRatiosHawksAcresTimberQuails Author:Rick Carlisle
“Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.” AirTreePercentHumorousPlantPollutionEightyAir PollutionPlants And Trees Author:Ronald Reagan
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.” WorldAmericaTreeThousandPercentHundredRiversRootsSpeciesFruitEdgesEightDawnNativeButterflyCrownsBatsPalmsFlewSpearsNorth AmericaBiodiversityOrchidsAmbushVipersJaguars Author:E. O. Wilson
“I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.” PeopleWorldAmericaTreePercentThirdsWineCaliforniaMarijuanaCoastGrapesBest WineCalifornia Coast Author:Jared Huffman
“I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.” KnowsI CanHelpingGrowsKnow HowStudyEnvironmentFireTreeSkillsSurvivalPercentOkayPlantSticksWoodsI RealizedBranchesHelp MeLos AngelesShelterUrbanSurvival SkillsUrban Environment Author:Shailene Woodley
“Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would only capture at most 10 percent of the CO2 we need to reduce. This does not mean that we should not plant trees; we should, for biodiversity's sake, and for our long-term future together with the other species.” IfsNeedsShouldMeanLongDoeEndsTogetherTermTreeCenturyPlanetsPercentPlantSpeciesSakeAvailableLong TermCaptureSquaresYardsBiodiversityPlant A TreeCo2Futures Together Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“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.” NeedsEarthAnimalClearTreePercentRainPlantSpeciesSurfaceForestsTropical Author:E. O. Wilson