“ 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.
وأية محاولة قام بها احد سكان الجزيرة للتحذير من مخاطر التوسع في ازالة الاحراج كانت تُبطِلها مصالح النحّاتين ،‏ الرسميين ذوي النفوذ ،‏ والزعماء » .‏ —‏ مجلة ديسْكڤر .‏