Forests Quotes - Page 2

• Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Land, Healthy, Environmental

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• My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Central Park, Favorite Places, Looks

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• You can't see the forest for the trees.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Tree, Forests And Trees

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “At First Sight”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

  Camille Claudel

  Night, Fire, Feelings

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• A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

  Woody Allen

  Self, Tree, Defense

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• By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reading, Sleep, Night

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• Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

  Greg Walden

  Home, Fire, Community

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• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  "Pooh's Little Instruction Book". Book by A. A. Milne, Joan Powers, www.mtv.com. 2001.

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• The heart of another is a dark forest.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Heart, Dark

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• I have gone to the forest.

  Knut Hamsun

  Gone

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• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  Willa Cather

  Nature, Tree, Way

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 8 (1913)

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• If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

  Brian Eno

  Nature, Echoes, Tree

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• Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

  Daphne Zuniga

  Paper, Toilets, Toilet Paper

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• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Life Without Principle" (1863)

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

  Barbara Tuchman

  Past, History, Tree

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.26, Random House

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• The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

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• We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

  Anna Freud

  Yesterday, Space, Tree

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• Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

  James Lovelock

  Desert, Easier

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• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Voice, Rivers

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• Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

  Marcel Proust

  Dark, Tree, Soul

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Nature, Heart, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow

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• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Loyalty, Grateful, Heart

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• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Glenn Danzig

  Snakes, Circles, Skulls

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