Top 594 Forests Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

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

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.

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

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

Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.

If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.

I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.

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

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Decades of eco-terrorism have effectively shut down our national forests from responsible management.

While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.

When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

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.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

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

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

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

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests!

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

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

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

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.