Forests Are The Lungs Quotes & Sayings

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. — Swami Vivekananda

If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!' — Chris Rock

I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin. — Julie Murphy

Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly — Edward Davey

Love is a question of geography. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system. — Michael Somare

Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests. — Chris Noth

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

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Forests are the lungs of our land ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889. — Daniel A. D'Aniello

Leaders are deep thinkers. They don't relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them. — Israelmore Ayivor

Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth ... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off. — Prince Charles

More contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. — Ayn Rand

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth. — Mikhail Gorbachev

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Fondue is not a good date food. — James Corden

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe

But civilized human beings are alarmingly ignorant of the fact that they are continuous with their natural surroundings. It is as necessary to have air, water, plants, insects, birds, fish, and mammals as it is to have brains, hearts, lungs, and stomachs. The former are our external organs in the same way that the latter are our internal organs. If then, we can no more live without the things outside than without those inside, the plain inference is that the words "I" and "myself " must include both sides. The sun, the earth, and the forests are just as much features of your own body as your brain. Erosion of the soil is as much a personal disease as leprosy, and many "growing communities" are as disastrous as cancer. — Alan W. Watts

Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet.25 At this rate, by 2030, only ten percent of the Earth's tropical forests will remain. — Chris Hedges

The forests are the lungs of the world. I've always believed if you breathe, you're an environmentalist. — Woody Harrelson