Forests Quotes

• I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Really
  • Forests

• The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Bad
  • Rain
  • Desert

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Feels

• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Flame
  • Heretic

• A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • May
  • Forest

• If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

  

  Pam Oliver
  • Live
  • Tree
  • Cutting

• To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Forests
  • Shelter
  • Resigned

• 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.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Forest
  • Friendly

• I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Said
  • Tigers
  • Skeletons

• I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Angry
  • Speech
  • Forest

• My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

  

  William Bartram
  • Nature
  • Progress
  • Elegance

• Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • World
  • Country
  • Forest

• We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Forests
  • Conserve

• Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Giving
  • Rain
  • Print

• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Doing
  • Forests
  • Mirror Reflection

• It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Way
  • Travel
  • Cutting

• Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Country
  • Wind
  • Environmental

• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Growing
  • Moments
  • Ashes

• It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Needs
  • Knows
  • Forests

• Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • May
  • Mistake
  • Forest

• I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Language

• In the summer, on fine evenings, I love to drive late and alone in the scented forests, and when I have reached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listening to the nightingales repeating their little tune over and over aga^n after interludes of gurgling, or if there are no nightingales, listening to the marvellous silence, and letting its blessedness descend into my very souL The nightingales in the forests about here all sing the same tune, and in the same key of E flat.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Listening
  • Silence
  • Key

• I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Country
  • Actors
  • Realizing

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