Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain… — Sting Copy Share Image
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact… — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Right now, our mother -- our mother -- all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
