Forest Fires Quotes

• No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Grief, Grieving, Rose

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Fire, Way

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Fire, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.56, Penguin

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• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Heart, Autumn

  "Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.

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• Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Fire, Poor Management, Acres

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• She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beautiful, Distance, Fire

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Wednesday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Fire, Forests, Capitalism

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

  Billy Connolly

  Fire, Tree, Forests

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• The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Tree, Political

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• It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Home, Sadness

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fire, California, Forests

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• The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Littles, Deer

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.”  But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Earthquakes, Fire

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, Stupid, Fire

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• The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fire, Tree, Forests

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• Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Fire, Weather, America

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• If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

  Anthony de Mello

  Heart, Eye, Fire

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.121, Image

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• My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Letting Go, Running, Father

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• Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona

  Rick Renzi

  Order, Fire, Waiting

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• Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Numbers, Fire, Forests

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• Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Running, Moving, Animal

  "The Electric Brain". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.

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• Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.

  Chris Tomlin

  Fall, Winter, Night

  Song: Winter Snow, Album: Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs Of Worship, 2009

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• The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer

  John Sculley

  Summer, Pregnancy, Fire

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