Rainforest Quotes

We almost have three parks here, ... A wonderful wild coastline. We have the largest temperate rainforest in North America -- and, of course, a superlative alpine zone with a lot of plant species. - David Morris

Today's announcement plants the seeds to safeguard this global treasure but the true measure of success will be signs of change on the ground and in the forest. Greenpeace will be watching to see if the British Columbian Government follows through on these commitments and takes this opportunity to make the Great Bear Rainforest a global model of forest sustainability. - Amanda Carr

Timber companies will be forced to respect the law, and to exploit the rainforest only in a manner that is sustainable. - Paulo Adario

This is just one example of illegal activities that are destroying the Amazon. This rainforest is a global treasure that stabilizes the climate and is home to most land life on the planet and to millions of people. It's taken thousands of years to grow and once it's destroyed it's gone forever. Unless laws against these sorts of forest crime are rigorously and urgently enforced to protect the rainforest and its people, we'll have a biological catastrophe on our hands. - Paulo Adario

This innovative rainforest agreement provides a real world example of how people and wilderness can prosper together. - Lisa Matthaus

There's a way to log many of these rainforests without destroying them, to do it sustainably. And we've seen the beginnings of that. The work of Ian and Karen McAllister has been invaluable. - Robert Kennedy

The Great Bear Rainforest is Canada's Amazon, and today's announcement is British Columbia's gift to the planet. - Merran Smith

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one. - Bjork

It's a rainforest, so it's like hiking through a national park. - Katy Johnson

It was like a rainforest. - Paul Costa