Forest Quotes
858 quotes by 612 authors
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available…
— William Wilson
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Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the…
— Joseph Conrad
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I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors…
— Tim Duncan
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Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like…
— Milan Kundera
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, 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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When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits…
— William O. Douglas
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Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight…
— Tom Waits
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Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the…
— Edna O'Brien
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The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.
— Bruno Stagno Ugarte
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend,…
— Denis Diderot
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It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best…
— Greg Walden
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Everything I need to know I learned in the forest
— Vandana Shiva
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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
— David Douglass
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Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You…
— Nachman of Breslov
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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not…
— Dante Alighieri
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John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when…
— Emma Goldman
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Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them.…
— Pelagius
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
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