Forests Quotes - Page 22

• I guess my favorite way to travel is in a car, especially if you get to go some place cool. The bullet train in Japan is cool; but overall, driving through certain areas, like the desert in the United States, or the Black Forest in Germany, you feel the nature unfolding.

  Steve Kimock

  Japan, Car, Black

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• When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• I went to England to tell jokes, and I wanted to tell my Smokey the Bear joke, but I had to ask the English people if they knew who Smokey the Bear is. But they don't. In England, Smokey the Bear is not the forest-fire-prevention representative. They have Smackie the Frog. It's a lot like a bear, but it's a frog. And that's a better system, I think we should adopt it. Because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool. Never has there been a frog hopping toward me and I thought, "Man, I better play dead!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• ... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Tree, Information

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• I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.

  Jane Goodall

  Dog, Nice, Drinking

  Interview with Lauren Barker, theweekendedition.com.au. June 5, 2014.

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• Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving Up, People, Support

  Interview with Jo Menell, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.

  E. O. Wilson

  Taken, Levels, Soil

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.

  Anne Rice

  Flower, Eye, Dna

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• From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

  William Inge

  Animal, Men, Fields

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• The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.

  Black Hawk

  Humility, Men, Light

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• Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Tree, Awareness, Learning To Trust

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• And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Country, Good Life

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• If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

  Sting

  Children, Rain, Mean

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 14 Apr.

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• I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

  Virgil

  Song, Voice, Tree

  Virgil (2015). “The Eclogues of Virgil”, p.53, Macmillan

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• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Organization

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• Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

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• Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.

  Bob Marshall

  Distance, Fall, Black

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• Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Moving, Challenges, Endure

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Pure Thought," (p. 90), 2000.

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• Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

  David Coleman

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• Notting Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning

  David Coleman

  Soccer, Running, Winning

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• A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

  Voltaire

  Europe, America, History

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• A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Vocabulary

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• If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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