Forests Quotes
1101 Forests quotes by 708 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
— John Muir
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Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs…
— H P Lovecraft
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Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best…
— Walt Disney
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
— Rachel Carson
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair…
— John Muir
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of…
— Bayard Taylor
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A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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I hate a man who skins the land.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of…
— Gifford Pinchot
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We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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