Forest Quotes
858 quotes by 594 authors
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We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in…
— Steven Pinker
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican,…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and…
— Chris Kilham
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On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and…
— Chris Kilham
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest…
— James Fenimore Cooper
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The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with…
— Corneille Ewango
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Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I…
— Corneille Ewango
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Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
— Mark Shand
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The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It…
— Kyle MacLachlan
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
— Elizabeth George
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Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It…
— Morris Gleitzman
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Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly…
— Theodore William Richards
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If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles…
— Peter Benchley
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All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.
— Michael Ende
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The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and…
— Richard Gough
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form…
— Henry Walter Bates
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
— Jenny Weber
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The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been…
— James Hogg
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
594 authors contributed a total of 858 Forest Quotes, led by these top contributors: