Forests Quotes - Page 17

• She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Clans, Barefoot, Faerie

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• She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Romantic, Beautiful, Sweet

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• That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Wind, Sky

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go.

  Juliet Marillier

  Brother, Taken, Home

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• We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hands, Feet, Bird

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Fire, Way

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

  Daniel Handler

  Sea, Water, Tree

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• He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

  Hermann Hesse (2017). “Siddhartha”, p.31, Youcanprint

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• He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Evil, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Rain, Storm

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• Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Dark, Long, Childhood

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Dark, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.810, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Wizards, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

  Gerald Morris

  Sweat, Giving, Strange

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.

  Arundhati Roy

  Stars, Sky, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Running, Creativity, Effort

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

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Solitude, Needs

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• ...today it is the duty of every thinking being to live, and to serve not only his own day and generation, but also generations unborn by helping to restore and maintain the green glory of the forests of the earth.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Thinking, Generations, Earth

  Richard St. Barbe Baker (1948). “Green glory: the story of the forests of the world”

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• There is memory in the forest.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Memories

  Margaret Widdemer (1958). “The Dark Cavalier: The Collected Poems of Margaret Widdemer”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.

  Mary Kingsley

  Mean, Library, Looks

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• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Men, Artist

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• William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.

  Paul Gruchow

  Song, Two, People

  Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”

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• 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.

  Wangari Maathai

  Relax, Mountain, Disappear

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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