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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

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing. — Ric Keller

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

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

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

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

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. — John Muir

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

I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania. — Ed Rendell

In our forests
part 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

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives. — Mary Oliver

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers. — Bill Mollison

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

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

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

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