Tropical Rainforest Quotes

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks.

The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

Monkey: An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees

I have made my home among the mountain gorillas.

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

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

There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.