Forests Quotations | Page 3

I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

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

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

Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

The human heart is a dark forest.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written.

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

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?

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

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

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

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

I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

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

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.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

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

India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the i

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while...

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

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!"

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

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

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

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

Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me -- and I didn't hear it.

When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.