Top 1200 Woods And Forests Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

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

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

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

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

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

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

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

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

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

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

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

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

The forests are the lungs of the world. I’ve always believed if you breathe, you’re an environmentalist.

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

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

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

Going through the redwood forests was the most spectacular motorcycling.

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

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

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

My playground growing up was the fields and forests.

I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes to the woods he goes because he needs to. I think he is drawn to the wilderness much as he is drawn to a woman: it is, in its way, his opposite. It is as far as possible unlike his home or his work or anything he will ever manufacture. For that reason he can take from it a solace-an understanding of himself, of what he needs and what he can do without-such as he can find nowhere else.

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

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

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

No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,--and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

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

I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.

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