Ancestors Quote by John Burnside

“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter or its…

— Matthew Fox

Raised by the woods provided goods enough for sure survival;

— Boondox

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it…

— William Vogt

Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we don't have…

— Mehmet Oz

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out…

— Anonymous

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or…

— Henry David Thoreau

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

— Raymond Chandler

There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up…

— Erin Hunter

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the…

— Will Durant

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts that stood their ground.

— Anonymous