152 Forest Quotes for You to Enjoy

I got to portray a park ranger on 'Gilmore Girls,' the reunion films. And when I was a kid, that was one of the things that I wanted to be - I wanted to be a forest ranger or park ranger. Peter Krause

Girl Films Kid Ranger One Of The Things Gilmore Girls Park Reunion Got Forest Wanted Things Portray

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! Powers Boothe

Work Before Months John About Chased Came Forest Six Wanted

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands. Ramez Naam

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Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place. Raveena Tandon

Forest Place Which Anywhere Zen

When I was a kid, I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really - something that was almost see-through, but it just moved in front of me. Rhys Darby

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The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club. Richard Gough

Me Job Club Take Federation Retire Another Ham West Contract Forest Offered American Going Interest Plan Premiership

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe. Richard Preston

AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest. Richard Preston

Rain Revenge AIDS Forest

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

War Battalions Systems Clash Some Global Global War Another Forest Just

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger. Ricky Schroder

Wildlife Ranger Were Forest Actor Biologist

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. Roberto Unger

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There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. Shimon Peres

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest. Simon Rattle

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

Past Every Trees Distant About No-One Taken Like Massacre Know Falling Hear Forest Close Place Them Present

Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer. Theodore William Richards

Journey Travel Science Before Every Way Run More Could Beaten Student He Clearing Track Himself Becomes Least Were His Off Left Forest Pioneer Quickly Than Predecessors Where Cannot While Race Even Start

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts. Tim Page

People Feedback Own Trees Nuts Definitely Seeing Case Could Poker Since Got Forest Us Should Product Initial Right

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. Yvonne Strahovski

Life Memory School Three Drama Drama School Dancer Out Physical Days Hiking Been Years Lot Australian Forest Very Camping Trained Did Whole Choreography Techniques

Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation. Zhang Yin

Generation Paper Like Forest Itself After Waste

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest. Robert Eggers

People Dark Matter Folklore Archetypal Mythology Tales Fairy Sure Fairy Tales Subject Subject Matter Forest Going Stories Interested Including

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks. George Monbiot

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