Forests Quotes

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. But bear in the forest.

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

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

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

The forests are the lungs of the world. I’ve always believed if you breathe, you’re an environmentalist.

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible.

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.