Forest Quotes

858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. — E. O. Wilson
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. — Peter Benchley
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being… — Benjamin Hoff
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall… — Natalie Goldberg
When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned… — George Raveling
Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden… — Thomas Kinkade
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars… — Thomas Berry
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding… — Lewis Grizzard
In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing… — T. Harv Eker
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. — Peter Drucker
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which… — Dian Fossey
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open… — David Hume
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune… — Rajneesh
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama… — Yvonne Strahovski
Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because… — Rodolfo Llinas
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements… — Mikhail Lomonosov
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or… — Dorothy Maclean

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