Forests Quotes · Page 37

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are…

— Anita Roddick

William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America…

— James Tate

I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of…

— Jane Goodall

The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries…

— Enos Mills

We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an…

— Sun Tzu

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet…

— Washington Irving

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.…

— Anonymous

I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself.…

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another…

— Dinaw Mengestu

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the…

— Kent Nerburn

There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of…

— Danielle Dutton

By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be…

— Stuart L. Pimm

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly…

— John Muir

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God…

— John the Apostle

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation…

— Robert Henry Thurston

I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests…

— Wangari Maathai

We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a…

— Aldo Leopold

The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a…

— Jeanette Winterson

Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly…

— Winona LaDuke

They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest…

— Wole Soyinka

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males,…

— Amy Sedaris

There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky…

— Roberto Benigni

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like…

— Anonymous

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.…

— Joan Halifax

Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves…

— Stewart Brand

In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously…

— Eban Goodstein

“after centuries of observation scientists are still not exactly sure why the Amazon—unlike other forests, where leaves turn brown during the dry…

— Greg Grandin

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,…

— Isaiah

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If…

— Brett Hoebel

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the…

— Jane Goodall

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a…

— Ajahn Chah

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on…

— David Mixner

Ellen [Page] and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business…

— Irene Rosenfeld

We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the…

— Liam Hemsworth

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to…

— Paulo Coelho

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they…

— Jack Zipes