Our 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
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
May the forests be with you and with your children.
— Daniel Quinn
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
— Gaylord Nelson
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
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
— John Philpot Curran
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
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
— Derrick Jensen
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
— William Vogt
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.
— J.K. Rowling
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
— Desmond Tutu
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
Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.
— Winona LaDuke
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
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
Tree is a soldier, forest is an army! And let us wish that all the battles against this army is lost!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
— John Lothrop Motley
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
— James Lovelock
Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
— Mickey Hart
The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.
— Wayne Muller
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
— Nhat Hanh
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
— John James Audubon
In our forestspart divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound! — John Cage
The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
— Donella Meadows
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
— Eckhart Tolle
Names didn't mean a whole lot in the Forests. Or maybe they meant everything. The right ones, that was.
— Brandon Sanderson
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
— George Perkins Marsh
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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
— Bill Mollison
Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
— Madeleine Stowe
Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Forests are the lungs of our land ...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The forests are the lungs of the world. I've always believed if you breathe, you're an environmentalist.
— Woody Harrelson
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
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
— Andrew Keen
October's gold is dim - the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.
— David Gray
When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.
— Morris Gleitzman
There is memory in the forest.
— Margaret Widdemer
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
Where wolves live, the forest is healthy
— Lana Turner
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Build your nest in no tree here ... for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
— Samuel Rutherford
(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)
— William T. Vollmann
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
— Henry David Thoreau