Forest Quotes

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary… — Henry David Thoreau
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal… — George Perkins Marsh
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and… — Henry Van Dyke
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. — Robert A. Heinlein
I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green… — Pablo Picasso
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a… — David Suzuki
Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest… — Sarah Doudney
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did… — Samuel Beckett
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be… — Thomas Merton
September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn… — Eleanor Perenyi
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep… — Ramakrishna
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge.… — Raymond Queneau
Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just… — Emily Carr
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner… — Werner Herzog
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard

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