Forests Quotes - Page 7

If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue logging the forests, she's going to continue burning charcoal, she is going to continue practicing agricultural activities that destroy the environment, and sooner or later Africa's problem will become a global problem.

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

Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest

There is no kingdom like the forests.

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.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

The human heart is a dark forest.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

I'm very fast. I'm like Forest Gump, except ... I am not an idiot!

It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.

The forests have taught man liberty.