#forest

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#julier-marillier #quote #quotes #trials

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. ↗

— Peter Benchley

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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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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ↗

— Alan Watts

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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. ↗

— Gilbert White

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