Forests Quotes
1101 quotes by 708 authors
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The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of…
— Thomas M. Disch
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There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way…
— Walter Benjamin
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear…
— Joel Salatin
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The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders…
— George MacDonald
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Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
— Virginia Woolf
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
— Wendell Berry
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At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between…
— Deepak Chopra
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Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain…
— Charles de Lint
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Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild,…
— Charles Bukowski
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Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than…
— Peter Singer
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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped…
— Neil Gaiman
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The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that…
— Matt Ridley
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if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against…
— Paulo Coelho
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She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and…
— A. S. Byatt
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A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the…
— Richard Brautigan
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A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their…
— Ilona Andrews
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He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly now, as if…
— Galen Beckett
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