Forests Quotes

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I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania. — Ed Rendell
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard
As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the… — Chanakya
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. — John F. Carlson
Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce… — Rick Renzi
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and… — Julius Sterling Morton
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here… — Joaquin Miller
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun… — John Muir
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong. — John Muir
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been… — Theodore Roosevelt
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States… — Theodore Roosevelt
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. — John Muir
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could… — John Muir
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in… — John Muir
If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it… — Theodore Roosevelt
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while… — Theodore Roosevelt
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we… — John Muir
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. — John Muir
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,… — Rachel Carson
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what I had truly… — Arnold Palmer
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of… — Joaquin Miller
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their… — Gifford Pinchot

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