Ali Smith Quotes

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

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.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably trees, since they tie up more of the gas in cellulose, meaning it will not return to the air within a season or two. Plants build themselves out of air and water, taking only a tiny fraction of their mass from the soil.

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

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.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.