Forests Quotes - Page 15

• Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

  Adriaan Kortlandt

  Beautiful, Sunset, Animal

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• See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Nuts, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 19, 2012

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• If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

  Neil S. Plakcy

  Fall, Divorce, Wife

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• By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Weed, Numbers, Tree

  "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.

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• Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Home, Recovery, Men

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

  Noah Cicero

  Feet, Guitar, Bird

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• The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

  James McBride

  Running, Strong, Fall

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• We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

  William James

  Islands, Sea, Roots

  "Confidences of a 'Psychical Researcher'". The American Magazine, Vol. 68, 1909.

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• October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

  David Gray

  Rain, Fall, Gold

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• My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Stars, Children, Real

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Children, Smart, Voice

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• I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

  Bas Rutten

  Home, Tree, Parent

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• I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.

  Geneen Roth

  Beautiful, Country, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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• The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.

  Adam Werbach

  Practice, Issues, Guides

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• When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
  And I’m dying to meet the artist.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Falling In Love, Art, Ocean

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• It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Two, Dirt Roads, Want

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• I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Moon, Seven Months

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• I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

  Katherine Applegate

  Beautiful, Rain, Justice

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• The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

  Tahir Shah

  Mind, Weakness, Body

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.226, Lulu.com

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• Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Dark, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag”, p.84, Bantam

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• Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You can’t avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. That’s the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth. Or you can be like a river when a forest fire hits it--phshhhhhhhhhhhh! Just drown it, drown all the heat and let it wash away.

  David James Duncan

  Mean, Rivers, Fire

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• That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them

  Paulo Coelho

  Rain, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Tree

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am your forest, your earth, your eternity. I am your life. I am your death. I am all things forever and always. Love me. Love me. Forever love me.

  Brom

  Forever, Earth, Eternity

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• I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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