Forests Quotes

1101 Forests quotes by 708 unique authors

A forest bird never wants a cage. — Henrik Ibsen
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona. — Maynard James Keenan
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about… — Jeff Koons
I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result… — Anne Lamott
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. — James Lovelock
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. — James Lovelock
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I… — Wangari Maathai
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need… — Wangari Maathai
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. — Wangari Maathai
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I… — Nelson Mandela
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its… — Orison Swett Marden
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done… — Karl Marx
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. — A A Milne
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… — John Muir
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but… — V.S. Naipaul
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. — George Jean Nathan
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like… — Pablo Neruda
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees. — Pat Paulsen
When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for… — Paula Poundstone
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point… — Dan Quayle
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The… — Jonathan Raban
All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of… — Rene Redzepi

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