Jungles Quotes

• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Desert
  • Perfects
  • Jungles

• How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth’s salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light.

  

  Emile Argand
  • Light
  • Salt
  • Immensity

• Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.

  

  Hal Moore
  • War
  • Soldiers
  • Countrymen

• I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Working
  • Democratic
  • Resistance