Ronald Reagan  - Quotes

 Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at? 

Tags: deforestation   trees     


Gaston Bachelard  - Quotes

 Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities. 

Tags: forest   immensity   poetry   space   trees     
David Mitchell  - Quotes

 Trees're always a relief, after people. 

Tags: alienation   forest   humanity   nature   trees     


Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 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. 

Tags: environment   forests   humanity   trees   wilderness     
Julien Gracq  - Quotes

 No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort of sad widowhood. Man had started to subdue these vacant expanses, then had grown weary of eating into it, and now even the desire to preserve what had been claimed had perished. He had established everywhere an ebb, a sorrowful withdrawal. His cuttings into the forest, which were seen at long intervals, had lost their hard edges, their distinct notches: now a thick brushwood had driven its sabbath into the broad daylight of the glades, hiding the naked trunks as high as their lowest branches. 

Tags: forest   time   woods     
Julien Gracq  - Quotes

 Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild boar could be seen, trotting with steady stride along the edge of the road with her sow and a whole procession of young in tow. And then one's heart beat faster upon advancing a little into the subtle light: one might have said that the path had suddenly become wild, thick with grass, its dark paving-slabs engulfed by nettles, blackthorn and sloe, so that it mingled up time past rather than crossing country-side, and perhaps it was going to issue forth, in the chiaroscuro of thicket smelling of moistened down and fresh grass, into one of those glades where animals spoke to men. 

Tags: fantasy   forest   path   road   time     
John Muir  - Quotes

 The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. 

Tags: animals   caring   earth   forests   nature   plants   trees   wilderness     
Rainer Maria Rilke  - Quotes

 Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among,

With their long sentences hung. Forest!
 

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