Tropical Rainforest Around the Corner with a Message ^

Tropical Rainforest Around the Corner 

with a Message

"I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it." - Jerry Brown

Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor 

Edge of a Rainforest, wall mural by the author

Convert empty walls into Nature murals as integral part of beautification and cleanliness program.  Make it a community project with incentives offered like contest,  and school practicum and credit.  Aesthetics transforms a "dead" wall and its surroundings into a virtual garden or park. Link your project with tree planting, waste recycling, sidewalk and street clearing, fiesta celebration, and the like.  - avr

"We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long."  

-  Morgan Freeman

"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 realize I am fighting for humanity." - Chico Mendes

Respite from City Living

The Tropical Rainforest is the richest biome, evolutionary home of our early human ancestors, seat of biodiversity, and considered the" lungs of the earth."  Transform a jungle of concrete into a virtual rainforest in your home and community. Details of mural paintings by AV Rotor

"The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth." - Prince Charles

Church Wall mural by the author, San Vicente Ilocos Sur. The area was a dumpsite and urinal.  Today it serves as waiting and assembly area for funeral entourage.

"Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off." - Prince Charles

"The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system." - Michael Somare

"In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday." -  Thom Hartmann ~