Forest Quotes

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.