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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

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. — Michael Dolan

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

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests. — Jay Inslee

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

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

The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm. — John Muir

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests — Jane Goodall

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires! — Billy Connolly

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone
rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. — Paul Stamets

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

Voyaging great distances
through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains
is all about finding ourselves. — Tim Lebbon

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

Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn't you say so? — Stephen King

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

The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests. — Neil Gaiman

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

I'm wearing a dress the color of dead forests and old tin cans. — Tahereh Mafi

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

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black. — Greg Walden

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

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration. — Voltaire

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

It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps ... — Tanith Lee

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest — Fiona Apple

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls. — Bob Brown

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

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin. — Rufus Wainwright

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