Journalism Quote by Irving Babbit

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of…

— Irving Babbitt

“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from…

— Robert Bly

“A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be…

— Wangari Maathai

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

— Winston Churchill

“The intrinsic nature of life is to make an effort to move ahead, to grow and to achieve success. Even a small seed has…

— Arshad Wahedna

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life…

— Karl Kraus

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.”

— Bill McKibben

“Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet…

— Ayn Rand

“Each seed of goodness we plant grows roots deep enough to hold the world steady.”

— Carlos Wallace

Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we…

— Arthur Carhart

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is…

— John Muir

“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of…

— Nick Harkaway