Colin Tudge Quotes:

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

source: - Colin Tudge (2006). “The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter”, p.368, Broadway Books

Topics: Religious, Heart, Tree

I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.

source: - Colin Tudge (1993). “Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped”, p.15, Island Press

Topics: Intelligent, Evil, Trying

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

source: - "Why woodlands are wonderful" by Colin Tudge, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

Topics: Plato, Thinking, Tree, Plato And Aristotle, Figs

GMOs could really land us in trouble

Topics: Land, Gmos, Trouble