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Forests Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I hate a man who skins the land.
- 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…
- 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…
- We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when…
More Forests Quotes
- In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him… — Charles Baudelaire
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a… — Hal Borland
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this… — Bill Bradley
- I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. — A. Whitney Brown
- I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic,… — Nicolas Cage
- The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away… — James Cameron
- When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an… — Thomas Carlyle
- The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. — Willa Cather