Forest Quotes

858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge. — William James
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he… — Nicolas Chamfort
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds… — Henry David Thoreau
A forest doesn't weep over one tree. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after… — Learned Hand
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I… — Learned Hand
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the… — George MacDonald
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of… — Frank Howard Clark
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to… — Tim Ward
Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. — Michael Dolan
He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of… — Robert Underwood Johnson
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure… — Wendell Berry
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that… — Brian Eno
My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the… — Haley Joel Osment
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the… — Kenzaburo Oe
Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating… — Rene Redzepi
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for… — Roberto Unger
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit… — Criss Jami
Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them… — Peter S. Beagle

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