Quotes of: Forests Keyword

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

Graceling

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Indexing

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

Sarah Canary

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

Mikolay and Julia Meet the Fairies

Jarod Kintz gets so many retweets, he’s like Katniss Everdeen with tourettes in a forest full of Mockingjays.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.

A Luminous Future

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

Light Shining In The Forest

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

The Sportswriter

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

The Prophet

Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

Touched with Sight

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

Half man, half tree, I have patience—and leaves. Forest fires make me sweat. Let’s go for a walk. You’ll have to push me in a wheelbarrow.

Xazaqazax

I love the sound of the trees in the breeze. If the forest is so clearly musical, why can’t it play the guitar while I sing Nirvana covers?

Xazaqazax

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

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

Roger Ebert

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

Richard Flanagan

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Steven Pinker

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Karl Marx