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Forests Quotes by Wendell Berry
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the…
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
- The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses…
- We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
- In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value…
- Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all…
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
- I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure…
- If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow…
- The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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