Best rain & forests Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”

People Ifs Real Opportunity Results Millions Tree Economic Activity Rain Destruction Practicals Forests Amazon Disorganized

Author:Roberto Unger

“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.”

Way Giving Looks Rain Plant Forests Carbon Desirable Oxygen Bargains Carbon Dioxide Chopping Saplings

Author:Isaac Asimov

“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

Source: A Year in Van Nuys

“I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests are protected because I know, whatever happens, these are the forests that contain biodiversity, these are the forests that help us retain water when it rains and keep our rivers flowing, these are the forests that many future generations will need.”

Knows Want Needs Helping Happens Water Generations Tree Rain Rivers Plant Forests Right Thing Protected Indigenous Future Generation Whatever Happens Biodiversity Plant A Tree

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.”

Horror Rain Forests Desert Compare Tropical

Book:In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.”

“Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.”

Ifs Stills Country Lasts Night Quality Tears Unique Rain Roots Woods Forests Branches Stem Last Night Transparency Rainy Poignant Buttercup

Book:Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories

Source: Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories

“If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.”

Ifs Mean Children Would Be Liberty Land Rain Libertarian Forests Burning My Children Libertarianism

Author:Sting

“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.”

Ifs Home Hands Might Wanted Young Water Dog Rain Smell Forests Landscape Sand Lakes Over You Shore Shallow Lap Dip Manageable Licking

Book:Visitation

Source: Visitation

“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.”

Humans Wells Animal Environment Rain Concern Rivers Plant Intense Forests Well Being Desert Lakes Socialist Human Family Lakes And Rivers Concern For The Environment

Author:Robert Sirico

“Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.”

“Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.”

Giving Changed Rain Forests Jungle Environmentalist Swamps Wetlands

Author:George Carlin

“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.”

Knows States United Half United States Tree Effects Theory Rain Environmental Myth Significant Forests Acid Acid Rain

Author:Haley Barbour

“The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.”

Way States Moments Turns United United States Sea Dying Goes On Happenings Rain Rivers Fishes Forests Soil Poisoning Pesticides

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.”

Water Can Do Animal Cutting Ocean Rain Rivers Climate Fishes Forests Superiors Farms Factories Rulers Slaughter

Author:Satish Kumar

“Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.”

Should Years Humans Done Brain Steps Millions Rain Add Assuming Complicated Monsters Forests Human Brain Countenance Improbable Improbability

Author:Richard Dawkins

“What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.”

Culture Danger Rain Pops Forests Burning Pop Culture Biodiversity

Author:William Gibson

“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.”

Needs Children Done Care Able School Mother Grows Activity Rain Rivers Our Children Medicine Coffee Income Forests Burning Your Children Hospitals Protected Charcoal Logging Good Coffee

Author:Wangari Maathai

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

Cutting Example Rain Climate Spread Forests Desert Tropical Rainfall

Author:James Lovelock

“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.”

Poetry Voice Born Poet Grew Grew Up Rain Rivers Towns Forests Hills Rainy Day Raindrops Timber

Author:Pablo Neruda

“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”

Ifs Want Needs Running Jobs Effort Ocean Rain Tasks Clean Intention Very Good Worthy Accomplish Forests Serenity Good Job Dolphins Best Intentions

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.”

Should Hard Party Bears Rain Forests Noise Canada Als Cop Gore Polar Bears Blood And Gore

Author:Paula Poundstone

“Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.”

Giving Rain Forests Print

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

Needs Earth Animal Clear Tree Percent Rain Plant Species Surface Forests Tropical

Author:E. O. Wilson

“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.”

Years Interest Millions Circumstances Rain Years Ago Plant Historical Forests Broads Continents Rainy Day Flowering Tropical Strongholds

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”

Way Life Trying Success Choices Parent Born Rooms Education Responsibility Generations Listening Clothes Rain Bills Boring Forests Bored Closets Cleaning Parasites Bills To Pay

Author:Bill Gates

“...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.”

“Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?”

Knows Way Should Dream Eye Wanted Asks Names Waiting Know How Streets Baby Angel Rain Forests Ships Evening Beach Witch Cruise Skates Flicker Jamaica Raphael Ping Cruise Ships

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.”

Soul Pain Remember Night Fall Passion Pleasure Emotion Loneliness Summer Rain Winter Mood Snow Forests Grieving Branches Divinity Autumn Wet Destined Elation Autumn Nights

Book:Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them”

Knows Facts Stories Song Stars Animal Race Half Wind Taste Rain Bottom Ancient Lust Forests Als Pale Uncles New Songs Love Or Lust

Book:Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

Source: Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”

Eye Names Sound Hair Fine Rain Train Glasses Forests His Eyes Eggs Crystals Frequency Spine Unstable Humming

Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”

World Wells Whole Wanted Beautiful Rain Bottom Fishes Oil Whole World Forests Beach Amazon Dump Pumps Straight Up Valve Ozone Offshore Ozone Layer

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

Rain Killing Forests Preserves Gas Acres Gallons

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.”

Source: A Drink Before The War

“But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.”

Knows Littles Doe Said Age Able Bits Watches Knowing Feet Middle Fronts Little Bit Rain Fishes London Forests Lions Electricity Tigers Middle Ages Whales Dvds Doorstep

Author:Charlie Higson

“Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”

“"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."”

“At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.”

World Moments Spiritual Universe Differences Rain Rivers Bones Forests Breathing Cosmos Cliffs Chalk Dover

Author:Deepak Chopra

“All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.”

“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”

“I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.”

Humans Beautiful Born Justice Rain Forests Dense Crayon

Author:Katherine Applegate

“That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them”

Remember Loses Mines Taught Rain Window Forests Evening Remember You Remembers You Remember Me

Author:Paulo Coelho

“We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.”

Young Strong Grows Draws Rain Patterns Storm Forests Soil Living Things Nourishment Oaks Tempest Grove

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.”

Thinking Humans Body Spirit Stars Positive Thinking Rain Forests Galaxy Human Body Clusters Nebula

Book:Everyday Immortality

Source: Everyday Immortality

“If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.”

Ifs Men Sea Ocean Rain Treats Forests Conservation Ocean Conservation

Author:Peter Benchley

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