Forests Quotes

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

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. But bear in the forest.

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.

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

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.