Forest Quotes

858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over… — Heinrich Heine
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the… — Edith Hamilton
It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible... — Sylvain Tesson
Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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

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