Despair Quote by Ellen Key

“Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through…

— Audur Ava Olafsdottir

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

— Bill Mollison

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

— Alexander Pope

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Children can’t see their budding lives through the long lens of wisdom – the wisdom that benefits from years passed, hurdles overcome, strength summoned,…

— Charles M. Blow

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it…

— Anonymous

“Still, he always approahed the job with a faint reluctance, disliking the manner of it more than the result. Chopping down a tree for…

— Diana Gabaldon

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human…

— Stanislav Grof

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and…

— Edgar Degas

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

— A. Whitney Brown

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

— William Sloane Coffin

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

— Edwidge Danticat