Quotes of: Forests Keyword

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

Gilbert White

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Chen Shui-bian

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and ...

The Forest House

Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world’s own garment were ripped ...

The Family Tree

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it...

The House at Pooh Corner

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my India...

My Art, My Life

As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to catch the crack of a distant branch that betrays an orangutan moving in the treetops, I think about how we humans search for Go...

Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo

[Hagrid's sad about Norbert being taken away] Caretaker Argus Filch: For God's sake, pull yourself together man. You're going into the Forest after all. Got to have your wits about ya... Draco Malfoy: The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can't g...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Pain is a companion, not a master.

From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Saul Williams

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

Kat Dennings

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

Kate Fleetwood

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

Mark Shand

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Vivienne Westwood

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

Winona LaDuke

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

Rick Atkinson