The forests are the lungs of the world. Iβve always believed if you breathe, youβre an environmentalist.
Woody HarrelsonRead
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the ongoing threat to natural resources and the inevitability of exploitation if certain areas are protected.
Woody Harrelson's quote underscores the relentless nature of the resource extraction industries, suggesting that simply blocking one area from exploitation will not halt their operations; rather, it will just push them to target another area. This reflects a broader commentary on environmental protection, highlighting the need for comprehensive and systemic solutions to preserve nature rather than localized efforts that could be easily circumvented.
Themes
EnvironmentPreservationExploitationIndustryNature
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech at an environmental rally, this quote can be used to highlight the interconnectedness of our ecosystems.
More from Woody Harrelson
All quotes βI think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.
Woody HarrelsonRead
I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.
Woody HarrelsonRead
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.
Woody HarrelsonRead
Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.
Woody HarrelsonRead
The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.
Woody HarrelsonRead
Similar quotes
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
Jon KrakauerRead
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.
Frederick DouglassRead
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
Elizabeth Von ArnimRead
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.
Joni MitchellRead
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
Al GoreRead
The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
Marjory Stoneman DouglasRead