Forests Quotes - Page 6

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Orison Swett Marden

Nature, Stars, Flower

"A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit". Book by Jack Canfield (p. 188), September 1, 2012.

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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai

Country, Men, Life And Death

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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Karl Marx

Civilization, Environmental, Done

Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Donella Meadows

Tasks, Politician, Carbon

"No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Dan Quayle

Funny, Winning, Stupidity

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Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

Conrad Veidt

Night, Firsts, Late

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One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Ed Rendell

Beauty, Impact, People

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I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

Ricky Schroder

Actors, Wildlife, Rangers

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Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

William Bartram

Men, Turkeys, Bird

William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

Michael Berryman

Rain, Ocean, Cutting

Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

Greg Walden

Black, Green, Recycling

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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

E. O. Wilson

Rain, Years, Historical

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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

Ed Rendell

Beautiful, Space, Tourism

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson

Sea, People, Desert

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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

Progress, Mankind, Smarter

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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Country, Tree, Different

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Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Chen Shui-bian

Fall, Tree, Prejudice

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If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

Don Young

Business, Tree, Way

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The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Inspiring, White, Water

Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Laozi

Flower, Careers, Two

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Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Ric Keller

Swimming, Hunting, Years

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

Nature, Eye, Science

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

Nature, Heart, Autumn

"Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.

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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Peter Benchley

Rain, Ocean, Men

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In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Garden, Tree

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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