Forest Quotes
858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors
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I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised…
— Jane Goodall
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In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all…
— Jane Goodall
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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet…
— Dick Gregory
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I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
— Sloane Crosley
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
— Kat Dennings
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Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee…
— Jared Diamond
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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce…
— Annie Dillard
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads,…
— Sylvia Earle
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my…
— Harrison Ford
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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me…
— Knut Hamsun
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I have gone to the forest.
— Knut Hamsun
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If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill…
— Woody Harrelson
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
— Victor Hugo
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
— Henrik Ibsen
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Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
— Maynard James Keenan
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If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about…
— Jeff Koons
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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result…
— Anne Lamott
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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
— James Lovelock
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— A A Milne
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
— John Muir
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but…
— V.S. Naipaul
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
— George Jean Nathan
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
— Pat Paulsen
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
594 authors contributed a total of 858 Forest Quotes, led by these top contributors: