Forest Quotes
858 quotes by 618 authors
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A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98…
— Robert de Castella
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Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they…
— William H. Calvin
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
— Tecumseh
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Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?
— Roddy Piper
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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is…
— G. Stanley Hall
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My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes"…
— Brooks Atkinson
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The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several…
— James Hansen
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
— Mikhail Tal
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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a…
— Loren Eiseley
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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and…
— Stephen Hawking
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their…
— Paul Polman
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Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business to slow and…
— Irene Rosenfeld
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before…
— Leonard Cohen
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you…
— Gerald Durrell
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At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I…
— Chico Mendes
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
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