Forest Quotes
858 quotes by 612 authors
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…
— Lester R. Brown
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What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting…
— Thomas Merton
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or…
— Peter Cundall
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees…
— Walter de La Mare
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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one…
— Karl-Henrik Robert
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When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms…
— Unknown Author
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us…
— Dean Koontz
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Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball…
— Walther von der Vogelweide
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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or…
— Laozi
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Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the…
— Emily M. Danforth
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Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.
— Kristin Kreuk
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I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.
— Forest Whitaker
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I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.
— Madonna Ciccone
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The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.
— Kay Johnson
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My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight…
— Josh Hutcherson
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My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always Out…
— Anna Torv
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
612 authors contributed a total of 858 Forest Quotes, led by these top contributors: