“ The price they paid for the way they chose to articulate their spiritual and political ideas was an island world which came to be, in many ways, but a shadow of its former natural self. ” — Easter Island — Archaeology, Ecology, and Culture.
शिल्पकार, अधिकारी आणि प्रमुखांच्या स्वार्थामुळे बेटावरील कोणा रहिवाश्‍याने जंगलतोडीविषयी ताकीद दिली असली तरी त्याकडे दुर्लक्ष केले गेले असेल. ” — डिस्कव्हर.