Forests Quotes - Page 14

Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.

John Robbins

Stars, Humble, Blessing

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It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

Max Arthur Macauliffe

Crush, Struggle, Wind

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For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

Dan Barber

Motivation, Inspiration, Cutting

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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

Islands, Sea, Roots

"Confidences of a 'Psychical Researcher'". The American Magazine, Vol. 68, 1909.

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October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

David Gray

Rain, Fall, Gold

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I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters.

Hans Frank

Differences, Prague, Example

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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

Bernard Moitessier

Stars, Children, Real

Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

Benjamin Hoff

Children, Smart, Voice

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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

Andrew Vachss

Dark, Fire, Two

Andrew Vachss (2001). “Flood”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

Bas Rutten

Home, Tree, Parent

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I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.

Geneen Roth

Beautiful, Country, Children

FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

Wayne Muller

Way, Path, Lost

Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.6, Bantam

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The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.

Adam Werbach

Practice, Issues, Guides

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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
And I’m dying to meet the artist.

Yasmin Mogahed

Falling In Love, Art, Ocean

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Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wisdom, Support, Tree

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We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Cities, America

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Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

Success, Buddhism, Careers

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The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.

Clinton Rossiter

Religious, Winning, Men

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When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

Henry Rollins

Civilization, Black, Twenties

Source: www.movieweb.com

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Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wall, Lying, Heart

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

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To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Rupert Sheldrake

Dna, Giving, World

"Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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Only with a leaf
can I talk of the forest

Visar Zhiti

Leafs

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I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

Powers Boothe

Six Months, Emeralds, Wanted

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Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.

Hattori Hanzo

Revenge, Kill Bill, Lines

"Fictional character: Hattori Hanzo". "Kill Bill: Volume 1", 2003.

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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

Ansel Adams

Men, Erosion, Games

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