Forest Quotes

858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors

Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort… — Frances Ford Seymour
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning… — Frances Ford Seymour
These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain… — William Shakespeare
That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this… — Michael Berryman
Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society… — Jean Charest
Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win. — Unknown Author
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Unknown Author
Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain — Sun Tzu
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it,… — George Berkeley
A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98… — Robert de Castella
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they… — William H. Calvin
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great… — Tecumseh
Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something? — Roddy Piper
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes"… — Brooks Atkinson
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs… — Sherwood Anderson
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several… — James Hansen
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.… — Barbara Kingsolver
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a… — Loren Eiseley
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and… — Stephen Hawking
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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