Forests Quotes

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

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

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

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

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.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

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

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

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.