Forests Quotations | Page 2

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life,

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.

Every successful prescribed fire is a blow for safety in surrounding communities and for forest health. These forests are made safer by periodic fires -- a natural part of the evolution, growth and maintenance of healthy forests,

They are all ... quite economical and inexpensive and sometimes free. Most of the national forests have some free camping. In some of the national forests in the West, all the camping is free,

The Sierra Club endorses Vice President Gore because he is committed to cutting air and water pollution and protecting our nation's treasured forests and wildlands.

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.

When the first frosts come there, late September and October, it's absolutely tremendous. The larches just turn golden and the hillsides around them -- just above the larch forests -- they're absolutely sparkling with color because of all the shrubbery.

These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public land surrounded by private land.

The Sabah State Cabinet has shown tremendous foresight in making this decision. If done right -- and we still have a long way to go -- these forests will always be a home for some of the most critically endangered animals in the world while still contributing in a very significant way to the Malaysian economy.

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Moore and Vital Ground, Montana will leverage the value of their easement to provide about $600,000 in federal funds that we will use to conserve other important forestlands in the Swan Valley. This project will add another 180 acres to a program that has helped conserve wildlife habitat and working forests on nearly 155,000 acres in Montana in the last five years.

No question, but I would give priority-all else being equal-I would give the nod to preserving the beautiful forests of Pennsylvania for just public use and recreation.

Coca production was not going to be reduced just because fumigation flights spray some fields as long as these farmers don't have any other economic options, except to cut down forests to grow coca somewhere else.

There are also a number of other agencies involved - the New York DEC, the USDA Nature Resource Conservation Service and the USDA Farm Services Agency, the Soil and Water Conservation Districts and the Future Forests group out of DEC Region 8. Without the cooperation of all of these groups, an event such as this wouldn't be possible.

This agreement protects acres of old forests that are good for the owl and other animals that would not have had protection otherwise.

This great icon of the American West now has a promising future. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will see grizzly bears roaming in mountains, forests and rivers in the Yellowstone area.

Implementation of this policy at the local level will ensure safe and efficient access of public lands while protecting land health. This policy will enable us to engage local people in constructive dialogue about how they want their national forests and grasslands managed.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.

The best way to keep forests from being converted is to keep them economically viable.

The bird captured on video is clearly an ivory-billed woodpecker. Amazingly, America may have another chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome forests in which it lives,

The northern hill tribes burn rain forests so the land makes better grazing, ... Without tree roots there, it allows erosion.

In 1936, I first wrote science fiction. It was a long-winded attempt at writing an endless novel...which died. I remember one sentence, "Whole forests stood sere and brown in midsummer".

Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. But bear in the forest.

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.

Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

These open houses provide Hoosiers with a chance to receive firsthand information about how the state forests are working to provide diverse wildlife habitat, forest products and recreational opportunities. They also allow us to receive valuable feedback from our neighbors and users about state forest management issues.

They made a promise to protect species by doing surveys back in 1994 and they've known about it all along, but they've delayed and delayed and delayed and we are not going to let them get away with ignoring their responsibility to protect our ancient forests and the species that depend on them.

It's a matter of life and death for this country, ... The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

I remember the day I finally got the Falcon after missing out at Christmas. They were like gold dust and impossible for Santa to find, ... I got it for my birthday and was the happiest kid alive. Many of my friends would meet up after school and play out battles in the street, gardens, sandpits, forests or anywhere our imaginations could take us.

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.

As governor, Kempthorne led the charge to strip protection from 60 million acres of America's last wild forests and he's consistently fought against protection for wildlife like grizzly bears and salmon in his home state of Idaho.

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.

The forests and the meadows are rejuvenated and refreshed with the Love of God, the All-powerful, Infinite Primal Being. My mind yearns to meet the Lord.

The Forest Service appears to be having an internal fire sale, with the heart of our national forests put out for bid on eBay. We may soon see the Weyerhaeuser National Forest patrolled by rent-a-rangers, overseen by private consultants.

The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats in the world. Given the growth in the South and the rapidly changing landscape, it is our outlook that many of these areas would in the next 20 years be converted from forests into fully developed landscapes." ()

The health of our forests are being challenged by fragmentation and (the absence) of management. We're targeting absentee landowners because they are often the most responsive and have the resources to get the work done.

The coastal migration theory has yet to be proven with hard evidence, but we have been finding earlier and more widespread evidence for coastal settlement around the Pacific Rim. The fact that productive kelp forests are found adjacent to some of the earliest coastal archaeological sites in the Americas supports the idea that such forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.

On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call a tune, then the Piper will lead us to reason. And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter. Does anybody remember laughter?

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.

Forests provide a lot of benefits to society like (the conservation of) soil, water, and wildlife, but it takes management to realize potential.

Forests shouldn't exist. The trees in the middle of the forest don't get enough light or nutrients to survive.

A common sense alternative is to protect America's national forests from commercial logging by reinvesting the logging subsidies into economically viable programs, ... Rather then spending taxpayer dollars to degrade our national heritage, we should invest in programs for ecological restoration, adequate school funding, alternative fiber research, vocational training, and community economic development.

It's a huge problem. The biggest challenge in the future is going to be to try to keep these forests intact.

Ecologists have debated for decades over whether there is something of ecological value to species diversity. We found that in forests throughout the New and Old World tropics, older trees are more diverse than younger ones. In other words, diversity is actually selected for as each of the forests matures. This means diversity does indeed matter and is an essential property of these complex ecosystems.

Ecologists have debated for decades whether there is ecological value to species diversity. We found that in forests throughout the New and Old World tropics, older trees are more diverse than younger ones. In other words, diversity is actually selected for as each of the forests matures. This means diversity does indeed matter and is an essential property of these complex ecosystems.

We are urging our government to look before we leap into loosening regulations designed to protect our environment and U.S. jobs. Our government should insist on a full review and modification of the WTO rules to ensure protection of our forests before pushing forward with new proposals.

Though people probably have an image of us as a house builder, one of our most important jobs is to manage forests in this country by planting and looking after trees. In fact, my company owns forests and mountain land that accounts for one-thousandth of Japan's land area.

Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

Haywood Community College is located in the most mountainous county east of the Mississippi, with two national forests and two national parks at our doorstep and owns two forests that we use for outdoor classrooms.

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.

We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

I have gone to the forest.

Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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!

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

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

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.

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

I'm very fast. I'm like Forest Gump, except ... I am not an idiot!

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

The only water in the forest is the River.

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.