Forests Quotes - Page 36

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

Ajahn Chah

Letting Go, Song, Confusion

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There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often hidden. I know some who concern themselves with feeding the poor or who give up their free time to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise ... a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

Pope Francis

Religious, Giving Up, Fall

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There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

Bill Mollison

Hands, Water, People

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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

Swami Vivekananda

Mad, Needs, Caves

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.25, editionNEXT.com

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Retreating from the world
will not liberate you.
Happiness is not found in
a secluded forest hut or isolated cave.
Enlightenment comes when you
connect to the world.
Only when you truly connect with everyone
and everything else do you become Enlightened.
Only by going deeply and fully into the world
do you attain liberation.

Guo Jun

Enlightenment, Caves, World

Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing

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With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity.

Alberto Villoldo

Rain, Journey, Medicine

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An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

Confucius

Orchids, Appreciate, Fragrance

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse

Lonely, Men, Tree

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past,
given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.

Robert Holdstock

Memories, Past, New Life

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Often sit alone happy happy
Thoughts somewhat far gone gone
Clouds circle mountain soft soft
Wind through valley swish swish
Ape in tree bounce bounce
Bird in forest chirp chirp
Time turns hair gray gray
Winter is here sad sad

Hanshan

Winter, Hair, Wind

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For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

George Harrison

Tree, Green

"George Harrison honoured by tree in Los Angeles after beetles ate predecessor" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2015.

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As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

Pope Francis

Fall, Tree, Sound

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The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go.

Opal Whiteley

Dream, Song, Wind

Opal Whiteley “The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, Lulu.com

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You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

Woody Harrelson

Focus, Passionate, Paper

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The forests are the lungs of the world. I’ve always believed if you breathe, you’re an environmentalist.

Woody Harrelson

World, Breathe, Environmentalist

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Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

Dolph Lundgren

Running, Distance, Animal

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I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

Neil Young

Beach, Guy, Feelings

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No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Lana Parrilla

Real, Fairytale, Littles

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

Walton Goggins

Hero, Hopkins, Sean

Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze
About a star of deathless and painless peace
But no astronomer can find where it is.

Ted Hughes

Stars, Elephants, Mazes

1972 'Crow's Elephant Totem Song'.

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Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Prince Charles

Air, Tree, World

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I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.

Steve Case

Education, Art, Thinking

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In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

John Ashcroft

War, Moving, Color

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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher

Tree, World, Shrubs

Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.89

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It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I Iook once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men. They tell me to be patient. They tell me I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become. Let the grasses grow over our scars, they say, and let flowers bloom over our wounds.

Kent Nerburn

Change, Teacher, Flower

Kent Nerburn (2010). “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder”, p.25, New World Library

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