Forests famous quotes

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
-- A. A. Milne

#Bye #Friendly #Forests

The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.
-- Adam Werbach

#Practice #Issues #Forests

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
-- Alan Watts

#Inspiring #Forests #Quiet

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Tree #Forests

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
-- Alice Walker

#Funny #Tree #Forests

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Philosophy #Doctrine #Forests

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#Heart #Night #Forests

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
-- Angela Carter

#Monsters #Looks #Forests

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.
-- Anne Rice

#Space #Digital #Forests

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Heaven #Forests #Earth

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Doe #Forests #Bears

I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life,
-- Arnold Palmer

#Meaningful #Years #Forests

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Forever #Forests

I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.
-- Bettie Page

#World #Forests #Another World

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

#Teacher #Forests

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
-- Bill Nye

#Forests #Tribes #Might

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

#Wall #Flower #Forests

I am your forest, your earth, your eternity. I am your life. I am your death. I am all things forever and always. Love me. Love me. Forever love me.
-- Brom

#Forever #Earth #Forests

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Confused #Men #Forests

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Fire #Sparks #Forests

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
-- Charles de Lint

#Cutting #Desert #Forests

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
-- Chen Shui-bian

#Fall #Tree #Forests

A single tree doesn't make a forest.
-- Chris Bradford

#Tree #Forests

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Rain #Acres #Forests

She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Forests #Clans #Barefoot

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
-- Conrad Veidt

#Night #Firsts #Forests

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.
-- Cynthia Voigt

#Maps #Forests #Empty

May the forests be with you and with your children.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Children #May #Forests

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper
-- Daphne Zuniga

#Paper #Toilets #Forests

Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!
-- Darren Clarke

#Matter #Forests

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
-- Dawn Powell

#Forests #Rich #Instinct

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.
-- Dean Koontz

#Choices #Pathways #Forests

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Waiting #Desire #Forests

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
-- Denise Levertov

#Cities #Growth #Forests

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
-- Derrick Jensen

#Dog #Desert #Forests

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?
-- Don Young

#Tree #Way #Forests

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
-- Donella Meadows

#Tasks #Forests #Politician

The death of the forest is the end of our life.
-- Dorothy Stang

#Forests #Ends

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
-- e. e. cummings

#Bird #Songbirds #Forests

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

#Thinking #Pennsylvania #Forests

weather is the indisputable ruler of the forest and every living thing in it ...
-- Ellen Sturgis Hooper

#Weather #Forests #Rulers

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#America #Forests #Type

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Gorillas #Monkeys #Forests

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.
-- Evaristo Nugkuag

#Tree #Forests #Resources

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
-- Felix Dennis

#Hate #Forests #Planets

Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation.
-- Ferdinand von Mueller

#Blessing #Forests #Generations

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.
-- Forest Whitaker

#Trying #Growing #Forests

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand

#Civilization #Desert #Forests

Forests are the lungs of our land......
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Land #Forests

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
-- Franz Grillparzer

#Progress #Forests #Mankind

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
-- Gale Norton

#Cancer #Needs #Forests

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.
-- George Harrison

#Tree #Green #Forests

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
-- George Perkins Marsh

#Tree #Forests #Improvement

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.
-- Gerald Morris

#Sweat #Giving #Forests

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#Prayer #Intelligent #Forests

The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.
-- Gifford Pinchot

#Beautiful #Home #Forests

The heart of another is a dark forest.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Heart #Dark #Forests

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

#Black #Green #Forests

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.
-- Greg Walden

#Land #Forests #Lawmakers

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
-- Gustav Klimt

#Weather #Woods #Forests

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
-- Henry Walter Bates

#Animal #Forests #Common

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#War #Genius #Forests

I'm not afraid of anything - except bear.  But bear in the forest.
-- Ilya Bryzgalov

#Forests #Bears #Not Afraid

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
-- J. D. McClatchy

#Shelter #Forests

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
-- Jack Dee

#Rain #Forests #Siberia

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.
-- Jack London

#Fire #Forests #Earth

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.
-- James Cameron

#Snakes #World #Forests

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
-- James Lovelock

#Desert #Forests #Easier

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
-- James Lovelock

#Rain #Cutting #Forests

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
-- Janine Benyus

#Cities #Forests #Sustainability

We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Running #Forests #Said

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.
-- Jeremy Narby

#Ayahuasca #Television #Forests

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

#Noble #Forests #Trouble

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
-- John Muir

#Tree #Forests #Bigs

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.
-- John Muir

#Roots #Damage #Forests

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.
-- John Muir

#Fighting #Battle #Forests

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
-- John Ruskin

#Tree #Sublime #Forests

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Adventure #Forests #Groups

I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.
-- Juliet Marillier

#Two #Forests #Return

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

#Play #Quests #Forests

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.
-- Kay Johnson

#Bird #Forests #Quiet

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.
-- Keith Miller

#Desert #Forests #Mystery

Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Forests #Found #Surprising

It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Two #Dirt #Forests

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?
-- Kenneth Patchen

#Children #Thinking #Forests

I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.
-- Kevin Hearne

#Tree #Lasts #Forests

Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.
-- Kim Jong-un

#Deeds #Monkeys #Forests

I have gone to the forest.
-- Knut Hamsun

#Gone #Forests

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
-- Kristin Cashore

#Rose #Forests #Graceling

Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.
-- Kristin Cashore

#Darkness #Forests #Three

Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.
-- Kristin Kreuk

#Rain #Kids #Forests

Where wolves live, the forest is healthy
-- Lana Turner

#Healthy #Forests

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.
-- Learned Hand

#Thinking #Tree #Forests

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.
-- Madonna Ciccone

#Philosophy #Tree #Forests

There is memory in the forest.
-- Margaret Widdemer

#Memories #Forests

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.
-- Maria V. Snyder

#Men #Two #Forests

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
-- Marina Tsvetaeva

#Looks #Forests #Eternity

He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
-- Markus Zusak

#Forests #Germany #Grows

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#Forests #London #Lost

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
-- Maynard James Keenan

#Home #Forests #Arizona