Forests Quotes - Page 32

• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  Kat Dennings

  Women, Home, Kids

  "Kat Dennings Talks 2 BROKE GIRLS, RENEE and the THOR Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Mind, Acres

  Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins

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• 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.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cities, Feet, Redwoods

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• Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

  Jane Goodall

  Successful, Fantastic Life, Years

  Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Teaching, Writing

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

  Jane Goodall

  Struggle, Years, People

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• I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Lakes, Perfect

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

  Woody Harrelson

  Cutting, Oil, Drilling

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Home, Arizona, Edges

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 13, 2006.

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• If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

  Jeff Koons

  Drawing, Tree, Missing

  "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

  Anne Lamott

  Fire, Media, Gossip

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• The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

  James Lovelock

  Rain, Cutting, Climate

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• I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

  Wangari Maathai

  Jobs, Pain, People

  "Farewell Wangari Maathai, you were a global inspiration - and my heroine" by Joseph Kabiru, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

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

  Pat Paulsen

  Fire, Tree, Causes

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• When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

  Paula Poundstone

  Party, Rain, Noise

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

  Jonathan Raban

  Night, Light, Cities

  "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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• All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

  Rene Redzepi

  Beach, Jobs, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

  Regina Spektor

  Ocean, Cities, Way To Live

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Vivienne Westwood

  Rain, Giving, Print

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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Animal, Tree

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• The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

  Felix Dennis

  Hate, Planets, Bleak

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

  Frans de Waal

  Mean, Animal, Cities

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• For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

  Paul Stamets

  Years, Europe, Mushrooms

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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