185 Quotes About Forests

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

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  • Author Charles Baudelaire
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    Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

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  • Author Henry Walter Bates
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    Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

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  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

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  • Author Powers Boothe
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    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!

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  • Author Wendell Berry
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    Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

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