Deforestation exposes soils and shade species to wind, sunlight, evaporation, and erosion. Soil fertility goes down due to the rapid leaching of essential mineral nutrients. Topsoil is eroded and this accelerates siltation in dams, rivers, and the coastal zone. The increased sedimentation harms downstream fisheries.
When the forest disappears, there is no regulation of the flow into rivers. As a result, floods and droughts alternate in the affected areas.
Deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation of forests affect many species and lead to the extinction of some. In particular, migratory birds and butterflies suffer due to the loss of their habitat.
Studies have shown that about 97% of the water absorbed from the soil by the roots evaporates and falls back on land as precipitation. When a large forest is cut down, the regional rainfall pattern may be affected.
Deforestation also leads to global warming by releasing carbon stored in the trees. If the trees burn, the carbon is released immediately. If the trees are cut and removed, half the carbon remains in the form of branches, twigs, etc. When they decompose, the carbon is slowly released.
Clearing of forests affects the local communities, who lose their sources of food, fuel, construction materials, medicines, and areas for livestock grazing. What is more, they lose their culture and way of living..
Now, It is our important duty to preserve and save trees, reduce deforestation and create awareness of nature protection. I have provided below 50+ effective, unique and shocking quotes about deforestation. Following deforestation quotes may easily motivate people and help spread awareness about the importance of growing trees and saving them.
Deforestation Quotes -
- “Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economical than preserving them.” - Johan Eliasch
- “Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.” - Paul Hawken
- “Human civilization has been changing the Earth’s environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering drought or even creating deserts.” - Jamais Cascio
- “In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.” - Howard Schultz
- “If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things that bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.” - Clive Anderson
- “Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn’t stop me from wanting to be one - to just stop feeling and live.” - Emma Gonzalez
- “I want to find more ways of planting trees and helping fight against deforestation.” - Alison Sudol
- “Deforestation is changing our climate, harming people and the natural world. We must, and can reverse this trend.” - Jane Goodall
- “If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching- greater food security, improved livelihood for millions of small farmers, and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economics, and above all, a more stable climate.” - Paul Polman
- “Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system -the lungs of the planet - and we are on the verge of switching it off.” - Prince Charles
- “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” - E.O. Wilson
- “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” - Mahatma Gandhi
- “Reversing Deforestation is complicated; Planting a Tree is Simple.” - Martin O’Malley
- “Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.” - James Lovelock
- “One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihood - it’s a vicious cycle.” - Gisele Bundchen
- “Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.” - Heather Mills
- “The Silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of tres but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.” - Jay Griffiths
- “We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.” - Theodore Roosevelt
- “At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity.” - Chico Mendes
- “I love the Amazon. I just wanna cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it’s going to be a museum exhibit in a couple of decades if we don’t stop the deforestation.“- Chris Kilham
- “Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It’s sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.” - Frances Ford Seymour
- “Deforestation for palm oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.” - Katie Cleary
- “My Rainforests Projects.. Has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to reorientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.” - Prince Charles
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein
- “Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” - John Muir
- “Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.” - Courtney M. Privett
- “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you. You can feel it. - Ted Trueblood
- “Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.” - Karen Joy Fowler
- “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” - Victor Hugo
- “What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.” - Sir David Attenborough
- “Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not live without them.” - Issac Asimov
- “Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.” - Johan Eliasch
- “We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.” -Wangari Maathai
- “Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.” - Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
- “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” - John Muir
- “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” - Kahlil Gibran
- “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the trees is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln
- “The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” - John Fowles
- “Learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves.” - Tasneem Hameed
- “When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have an essence.” - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “Worldwide, we have now destroyed over half of the forest that once flourished on our planet. Not only are we losing the animals that once lived on them, we’re also changing the climate of the entire globe.” - David Attenborough
- “Industrialization, pollution, deforestation–basically all human activity–has lessened the amount of magic left in the world.” -Lindsey Leavitt
- “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.” - Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- “The trees are man’s best friends, but man has treated them as his worst enemies.” - Nathaniel H. Egleston
- “It’s like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and the tunnel has leaves on it. About rain forest destruction and species extinction.” - Daniel Anthony Perasa
- “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Reversing deforestation is Complicated: Planting a Tree is Simple.” -Martin O’Malley
- What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” -Mahatma Gandhi
