78 Forests Quotes for You to Enjoy

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Strength People Giving Nation Our Air Our People Destroys Purifying Fresh Itself Forests Land Lungs

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle. John Muir

Life Home Nature Struggle Weather Wild Way Rank Some Seems Beasts Vegetation Feeble Adventurous Suppose Armed Him Unwelcome Making Tangled Came His His Way Forests Trying Going Going Home Woods Hard Spears Traveler Originally Creature Needles

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. Nelson Mandela

Great Problems Unity Our Dream Solve Vast Leaders Combine Continent Forests Efforts Africa Whereby Realization Deserts

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. David Mixner

Life Nature Spiritual Me Healing World Animals Farm Back Way Cities Slower Spiritual Person More Rational Adult Adult Life Adventure Self-Discovery Always Were Been Friends Forests Than Person Going Childhood Moved Where Pace Place Places Fields Companions

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

Me Despot Courts Friends Forests Iroquois Europe Savages

Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now. Frances Beinecke

Will Mountains Changing Our Unless Earth Severe Those Cities See Impacts More Global Global Warming Climate Reducing Forests Human Pollution Warming Farms Grow Activities Now Start Disrupted Damage

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

Soil Relations Our Importance Practical Climate Augmented Forests Streams Preservation

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden

Nature Man Soul Clouds Impress Stars Every Winds Glaciers Animate Rivers Crystal Leaves Existence Forests Form Lakes Inanimate Flowers

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. John Muir

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. James Howard Kunstler

Rain Living Complacency Other Everyday Worldwide Striking About Devastation Environment Calamity Headlines Global Global Warming Forests American May Represents Newspaper Warming Shout Growing Species

The elephant can survive only if forests survive. Mark Shand

Only Forests Survive Elephant

I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests. Aaron Koblin

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness. Alexander Chee

You Water Dark Stillness Beauty White Live See Vivid Somehow Beaches Maine Almost Clearly Along Occasional Return Becomes Pine Rocky Forests Stone Blue Moved Flashes While Sand Really Coast Each Now Away

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. Ellie Goulding

Music You Achieve Example Mountains Type Kind Folk Running Folk Music Folklore More Both Perfect Perfect Example Could Through Obsessed Like Countryside Forests Canada Bands Listen Wanted Woods Lakes Fields Boards Really Aspects Electronic Electronic Music

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine. John Muir

Heart World Sunshine Light Weather Mountains Other Everything Sierra Summit All The World Lies Silver Seems More Magnificent Glaciers Mostly Falls Pine Shines Rocks Forests Than Get Storms Lakes Warm Base Streams Nearly

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands. Winona LaDuke

Agriculture Organic Our Air Destroying About Could Glaciers Industrialized Quarter Oceans Forests Moved Moving Lands Carbon

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests. Alex Shoumatoff

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.' Ali Smith

Great Me Old Word Sky Country Clever Trees Back Circles Tops About Myriad How Covered Provide Forests Get Meant English Creatures Homes Inner Started

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests. Alice Morse Earle

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. Bjorn Lomborg

Environmental World Half Important Situation Rich Increasing Waters Air Dramatically Air Pollution States Has-Been Indicator More Rivers Since Most Been Forests Than Improved The Most Important Pollution Cut Coastal United United States

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. Bruce Babbitt

Gone Down Those Rate Tens Tens Of Millions Economy Perpetuity Up Forests Unemployment Unemployment Rate Northwestern Aside Acres Millions Set

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. Cary Fowler

Nature People Word Mind Diversity Big Enough Synonymous More Only Almost Fair Also Within Forests Than Dwell Much Many Creatures Species Biodiversity Brings

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