Ashes Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashes Forests Growing Long Long time Made Moments Nature Time
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees to stand.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share
“Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility!… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. — John Muir Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes. — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
