Quotes for All
The forests are the flag’s of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world. Enos Mills
Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees as an artist. Elton John
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Friedrich Nietzsche
Forests are the lungs of our land. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. François-René de Chateaubriand
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households … [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly … Read more
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. D. Elton Trueblood
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughan
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees. Bernard Baruch
A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under … Read more