#forests

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#backward #company #easy #forests #fur

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

#delightful #distant #elegance #forests #grand

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. ↗

— George Catlin

#away #boundless #civilization #contemplated #forests

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#close #forests #i #jobs #know

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#essential #forests #healthy #land #living

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#netherlands #territory #whole

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#forest #forests #like #more #point

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#aside #down #economy #forests #gone

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically