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  • ...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

  • In the woods we return to reason and faith.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin
  • A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

    Nature   Heart   Autumn  
    "Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.
  • In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

    Noble   Forests   Trouble  
    John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA
  • The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

    Snakes   World   Forests  
  • 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.

    Cutting   Rivers   Air  
    "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.
  • Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

    Nature   Book   Fall  
  • Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

    Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.
  • At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

    Wise   Nature   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America
  • Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  • There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

    Lonely   Nature   Travel  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • 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.

    Running   Lakes   Perfect  
    "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.
  • Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

    Book   Men   House  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin
  • I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

    Music   Nature   Health  
    John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”
  • Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

    Home   Science   Animal  
    Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks
  • I love not man the less, but Nature more.

    Nature   Men   Earth Day  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

    Ocean   Weather   Air  
  • When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  • We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

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

    Family   Son   Tree  
  • One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

    1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.
  • I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

    Nature   Healing   Tree  
    Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.133, Counterpoint Press
  • Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

  • Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

    Home   Fire   Community  
  • A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

    Self   Tree   Defense  
  • "One impulse from a vernal wood

    Nature   Tree   Woods  
    1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.
  • The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4
  • If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

    Nature   Science   Men  
    "Life Without Principle" (1863)
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