Forests Quotes
1101 quotes by 708 authors
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I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad…
— Anupam Kher
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Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables…
— Gary Snyder
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
— Joseph Conrad
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The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.…
— Joseph Conrad
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return…
— Joan Halifax
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it…
— James Lane Allen
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall…
— John Quincy Adams
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You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may…
— Chinua Achebe
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The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.
— Dan Quayle
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Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written.
— Rush Limbaugh
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The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer
— John Sculley
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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which…
— Washington Irving
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When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and…
— Gautama Buddha
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
— Gautama Buddha
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Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us…
— Luther Standing Bear
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If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and…
— Elizabeth Kim
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