Forest Quotes
858 quotes by 594 authors
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Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
— Chen Shui-bian
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There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to…
— Jon Krakauer
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What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge…
— David Eugene Smith
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Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself…
— Fred Bear
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When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.…
— Fred Bear
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people,…
— Abraham Pais
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But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to…
— Gordon Bethune
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a…
— Ajahn Chah
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In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral…
— Edmund Gosse
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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
— Richard Louv
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No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The…
— Yvon Chouinard
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A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
— Dawn Powell
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds,…
— Ajahn Chah
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.…
— Ajahn Chah
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music…
— Yusef Lateef
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The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens…
— Arthur Miller
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Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer…
— Ellen Key
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Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of…
— Walt Whitman
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On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do…
— Shirley MacLaine
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
594 authors contributed a total of 858 Forest Quotes, led by these top contributors: