Forests Quotes - Page 7

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Men, House

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

George Nakashima

Nature, Tree, Humanity

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

George Bernard Shaw

Trust, Nature, Men

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt

Tree, Environmental, Pollution

"Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

Nature, Sea, Tree

John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A. Whitney Brown

Anger, Frustration, Confusion

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Willa Cather

Love, Nature, Heart

Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Chanakya

Family, Son, Tree

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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Chanakya

Education, Cutting, Tree

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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Men, Tongue

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Harrison Ford

Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

Home, Science, Animal

Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks

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As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

Greg Walden

Fire, Ecosystems, Long

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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Mimi Sheraton

Glasses, Cities, Antiques

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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Safety, Tree, Tanks

Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Marvin Harris

Attitude, Pigs, Years

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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Winning, Sky, Tree

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Lonely, Nature, Travel

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Theodore Roosevelt

Country, Children, Future

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If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Steven Wright

Funny, Humor, Laughing

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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Bill Bradley

Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

Barack Obama

God, Jobs, Father

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Jane Goodall

Nature, Book, People

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Nature, Men, Earth Day

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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