Forests Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree â€” the greatest tree in the forest? You may… — Chinua Achebe
The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. — Dan Quayle
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
The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer — John Sculley
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
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
When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha
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
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
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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