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If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.
Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.
Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.
I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.
I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.
Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.
But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests
The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.
I grew up in the northernmost parts of New Jersey, known more for lush forests and old farmland than industrial wastelands and fist pumping.
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.