Forests Quotes
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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
— Gustave Flaubert
She winds her way through gorgeous blue conifer forests, past glistening rivers and curves that give glimpses of heaven.
— Rene Denfeld
The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is no kingdom like the forests.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree.Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest. — Takuan Soho
I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
— Wangari Maathai
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
— Janine Benyus
Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
— Wangari Maathai
A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
— Charles Bukowski
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany ... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
— Markus Zusak
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
— William Shakespeare
May the forests be with you and with your children.
— Daniel Quinn
All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
— Charles De Lint
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
— John Muir
If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.
— Henry Van Dyke
Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!
— Darren Clarke
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And they tramped off to the forests with sturdy youths bearing guitars, twang-twang!
— D.H. Lawrence
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
— Winona LaDuke
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.
— J.K. Rowling
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
— Katy Lederer
Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest. — Robert Holdstock
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.
— Nelson Mandela
Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.
— James C. Snyder
Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
— Billy Connolly
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alonerivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
— Anderson Cooper
He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.
— Willis Gaylord Clark
Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
— Vivienne Westwood
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
— Lily Collins
Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
— Robert Charles Wilson
Forest have now lost six matches without winning.
— David Coleman
No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
— Zbigniew Herbert
If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.
— Henry David Thoreau
The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.
— Kay Johnson
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
— Ralph Regula
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
— Christina Stead
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake
Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.
— John Assaraf
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots. — Rumi
All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.
— Patrick Modiano
Above the forest of the parakeets,A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
A pip of life amid a mort of tails. — Wallace Stevens
father's best friends, and Dax had known him all his life. Dax and his father had hunted with Herne in the forests north and east of Tazzelton, and
— William L. Culbertson
You showed me there is something in the forest to cure most anything that bothers you.
— Donald Smith
Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.
— Gautama Buddha
October's gold is dim - the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.
— David Gray
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
— Andrew Keen
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The forests are the lungs of the world. I've always believed if you breathe, you're an environmentalist.
— Woody Harrelson
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
— Donella Meadows
Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
— Madeleine Stowe
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
— Bill Mollison
When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.
— Morris Gleitzman
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
— George Perkins Marsh
Names didn't mean a whole lot in the Forests. Or maybe they meant everything. The right ones, that was.
— Brandon Sanderson
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
— Eckhart Tolle
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
— Henry David Thoreau
The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
— Mickey Hart
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
— James Lovelock
Tree is a soldier, forest is an army! And let us wish that all the battles against this army is lost!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't carry logs into the forest.
— Horace
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
— Ellsworth Huntington
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
— John Lothrop Motley
Forests are the lungs of our land ...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)
— William T. Vollmann
Build your nest in no tree here ... for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
— Samuel Rutherford
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness ...
— Henry David Thoreau
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Where wolves live, the forest is healthy
— Lana Turner
The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.
— Erin O'Connor
There is memory in the forest.
— Margaret Widdemer