Forests Quotes

1101 Forests quotes by 708 unique authors

Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated. — Gale Norton
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise… — Henry Van Dyke
To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves. — J. D. McClatchy
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding… — Madeleine L'Engle
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a… — Seneca the Younger
Many of the forests of the world are being mowed down... But the rest of the world isn't going to say, "Okay, we'll save our… — Thomas R. Pickering
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God… — George Washington Carver
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply… — Henry David Thoreau
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Henry Ward Beecher
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but… — Winona LaDuke
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent… — Carl Jung
Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great… — Elizabeth A. Johnson
Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to… — Winona LaDuke
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third… — John the Apostle
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary… — Henry David Thoreau
The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect.… — Francis Schaeffer
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the… — John the Apostle
They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping… — Isaac Asimov
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet. — Henry David Thoreau

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