Bill Gates

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

American Businessman

Fidel Castro

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Statesman

B. B. King

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

American Musician

Robert Wilson

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

American Director

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

French Writer

Dolly Parton

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

American Singer

Julie Christie

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

British Actress

Rege-Jean Page

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

English Actor

Samuel Ervin Beam

I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.

Kamisese Mara

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

Fijian Statesman

Plantations often refer to historical farms with forced labor, evoking sensitive and dark pasts.

Historical Context

In some contexts, 'plantation' may carry a negative connotation due to its association with colonial exploitation.

Negative Connotation

Nowadays, the term can be neutral, describing large-scale commercial farming operations.

Modern Perspective

Tree plantations are often created for environmental benefits like reforestation but can also reduce biodiversity.

Environmental Impact

Plantations may not resemble natural forests; they're typically grown for industrial materials like timber or paper.

Industrial Use

 protection from the intense fires that now threaten the region every summer. The UN suggests that almost half of reforested areas around the world are monocultures just like this, planted for rapid timber production or carbon capture. Just like a farm, these plantations may be valuable for timber, but they are not the restoration of nature.

The global movement to...

 been felled and replaced by plantations of eucalyptus imported from australia unfortunately many of madagascar's animals can't find the food they require in this new and foreign environment but even so the place was not totally barren of animal life dead logs to anyone looking for animals

Sir David Attenborough...

 that's when I built my houses and paid my children's school fees in the absence of that really what are they going to do so we forget that it has to be a way to bypass that bottleneck and give power to the raw folk and in doing our work with computerized plantations we've done okay

What will change Africa?...

 They are just people trying to make a living. And what I saw was this endless poverty trap. Three years ago now, I'd bought an illegal coca plantation by mistake. These are raw coca leaves. They have the highest alkaloid content of any coca leaves in the world.

I Bought a Rain Forest,...

 where the tiger is going to live in Sumatra forever for one reason and one reason only their mountainous and you can't put a palm oil plantation there so here we go they're in these beautiful mountains beautiful jungle one of the most

Steve Winter: On the...

 where natural habitat and wildlife populations are rapidly being eradicated by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large sugarcane and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few.

The coolest animal you...

 to the Maryland plantation of her ancestors. Early on, she learns that her mission is to save the life of the white man who will rape her great grandmother. If she doesn’t save him, she herself will cease to exist.

Why should you read...

 And there is possibility to carry it out as plantations. If we are able to protect the trees in the wild and replenish the wild populations, Then I think the trade should be incentivized.

Is Your Perfume Made...

 the forest is very much alive but this life is under threat the wildlife is impacted because of the plantations because of farming and because of human encroachment in a year

Rehabilitating Baby...

 plantations were very very important to my upbringing my family my brothers and