Forests Quotes
1101 quotes by 729 authors
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Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
— Ric Keller
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
— Pablo Neruda
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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
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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
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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
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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
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now…
— Anton Chekhov
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
— E. O. Wilson
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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
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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You'…
— Woody Allen
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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
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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
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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
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser…
— Denis Diderot
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To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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"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
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...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack…
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
— Peter Drucker
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