Forests Quotes - Page 28

I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.

Joel Stein

Appreciation, Taken, I've Learned

Source: therumpus.net

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When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.

Rhys Darby

Home, Kids, Thinking

Source: www.avclub.com

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I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

Alexander Chee

Ideas, Getting Lost, Way

Source: therumpus.net

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I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

Li Bingbing

Years, Environmental, Events

"Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought, I am going to do something because I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. From that day on, environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

Li Bingbing

Careers, Acting, Desert

"Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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There's not much that doesn't get me stoked. I love what I do and am so passionate about it that I get stoked on the simplest things - watching the sunrise, walking on the beach, going for a run through the forest or along the coast. One of my all time favorite things is surfing amazing waves with my family and best friends.

Sally Fitzgibbons

Running, Beach, Surfing

Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

Vandana Shiva

Father, School, Careers

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One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnt there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

Vandana Shiva

Father, Swimming, Apples

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. Its also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, its an economic issue, not just an ecological one.

Vandana Shiva

Issues, People, Owl

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Country, Ebola, People

"World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "All Things Considered" with Renee Montagne, wuwm.com. December 30, 2015.

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Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do.

Lily Collins

Appreciation, Fighting, Swans

"Lily Collins: The ‘Mirror Mirror’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 14, 2012.

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There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.

Danielle Dutton

Mirrors, Tree, Littles

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

Ramez Naam

Agriculture, Source, Deforestation

Source: bigthink.com

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If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

Ramez Naam

Technology, Want, Able

"Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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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.

Richard E. Blackwelder

Evil, Pioneers, Benefits

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I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.

Dean Potter

Moving, Weather, Guy

Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia, Brazil, Earth

Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.

David Quammen

Issues, Yellowstone, Land

"< Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 18, 2016.

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My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.

Vandana Shiva

Father, Mean, India

Source: scottlondon.com

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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

Vandana Shiva

Rivers, People, Justice

Source: scottlondon.com

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I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.

Henry Rollins

Rain, Games, Cities

"Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

J. K. Rowling

Speech, Hogwarts, Troll

Twitter post from Jun 30, 2016

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I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I want to walk in the forest, I want to walk in the fields, I just want to lie down on the grass and feel the sun against my skin. I want to be able to hold my family close to me and not have someone tell me time's up.

Leonard Peltier

Art, Lying, Home

Source: montanapioneer.com

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Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly miss people and enjoying a good laugh with my peers.

Yaya Toure

Country, Children, Home

"Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

Li Bingbing

Desert, Earth, Hometown

"Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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