Forest Quotes

858 Forest quotes by 594 unique authors

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens… — Arthur Miller
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer… — Ellen Key
Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of… — Walt Whitman
On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do… — Shirley MacLaine
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. — John Milton
Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand… — Scott Cunningham
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in… — Dag Hammarskjold
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of… — Rush Limbaugh
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare… — Washington Irving
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you… — Aldo Leopold
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips… — H.G. Wells
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around… — David Suzuki
The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find… — John Maeda
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely… — Alfred Wainwright
According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home,… — Unknown Author
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Unknown Author
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened… — Henry Walter Bates
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula
The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial… — Ernest Thompson Seton
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence. — Eckhart Tolle
Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would… — David Abram
We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. — Glenn Danzig
Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest… — Unknown Author
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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