Forests Quotes - Page 6

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  "A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit". Book by Jack Canfield (p. 188), September 1, 2012.

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• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  Ed Rendell

  Beauty, Impact, People

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• I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

  Ricky Schroder

  Actors, Wildlife, Rangers

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• As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

  Greg Walden

  Black, Green, Recycling

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Years, Historical

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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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• Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

  Ric Keller

  Swimming, Hunting, Years

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• That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

  Michael Berryman

  Rain, Ocean, Cutting

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Flower, Careers, Two

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• It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

  Greg Walden

  Land, Stewardship, Lawmakers

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• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  Jack Dee

  Rain, Siberia, Cases

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• Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Progress, Mankind, Smarter

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• A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Country, Tree, Different

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• If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

  Don Young

  Business, Tree, Way

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• Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Fall, Tree, Prejudice

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• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Inspiring, White, Water

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

  Chen Shui-bian

  People, Democracy, Prejudice

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• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  Ed Rendell

  Beautiful, Space, Tourism

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• Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

  Conrad Veidt

  Night, Firsts, Late

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• Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sea, People, Desert

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• Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

  William Bartram

  Men, Turkeys, Bird

  William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, 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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• If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

  Peter Benchley

  Rain, Ocean, Men

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• In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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