Forests Quotes - Page 17

• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Tree, Political

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• We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Land, Rivers, Water

  Joseph J. Romm (2010). “Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions”, p.213, Island Press

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Cities, Climate

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Summer, Moving, Ice Cream

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books

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• In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

  Alan Paton

  Fall, Dark, White

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

  Angela Carter

  Monsters, Looks, Leafs

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.

  Ralph Ellison

  Giving, Attention, Too Much

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.239, Modern Library

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• A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fire, Sparks, Whole

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• 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.

  Walter Scott

  Winter, Air, Tenacity

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.240

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• If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

  Bill Nye

  Might, Tribes, Wells

  Source: blogs.kcrw.com

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• Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Fall, Animal, Tree

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
  A motley fool! a miserable world!
  As I do live by food, I met a fool
  Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
  And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
  In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Down And, Fool

  1599-1600 Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.7, l.12-17.

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• As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

  Walter E. Williams

  Tree, Feelings, Emotion

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• I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, May, Saws

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• I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

  Enric Sala

  Dream, Ice, Two

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• Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Fire, Weather, America

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• May the forests be with you and with your children.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, May, Your Children

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• Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

  Rick Atkinson

  War, Clash

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• Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.

  Vinod Khosla

  Mean, Winter, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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

  Takuan Soho

  Tree, Missing, Leafs

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• Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

  Lance Morrow

  Memories, Night, Eden

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• Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

  Paul Stamets

  Buddhist, Mushrooms, Discovery

  "Maitake: The Magnificent ‘Dancing’ Mushroom" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.

  Paul Stamets

  Powerful, Acceptance, Medicine

  "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

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• The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.
  Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  Anne LaBastille

  Good Life, Reflection, Opportunity

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• Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

  Arthur Carhart

  Character, America, People

  Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1955). “Timber in Your Life”

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