Forest Quotes
858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors
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Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
— Vladimir Horowitz
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
— Denis Diderot
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Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.…
— Al Purdy
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Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it…
— Denis Waitley
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God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and…
— Sam Storms
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the…
— Joseph Campbell
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Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies…
— Dale Carnegie
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's…
— Fidel Castro
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The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants…
— Eknath Easwaran
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To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the…
— Edwin Way Teale
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Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought.…
— Deepak Chopra
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This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations…
— Grace Paley
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and…
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious…
— Paul Stamets
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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
— Rick Atkinson
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We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in…
— Steven Pinker
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican,…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and…
— Chris Kilham
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On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and…
— Chris Kilham
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest…
— James Fenimore Cooper
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The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with…
— Corneille Ewango
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Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I…
— Corneille Ewango
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Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
— Mark Shand
Who Wrote These Forest Quotes
594 authors contributed a total of 858 Forest Quotes, led by these top contributors: