Forest Quotes

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. (A. A. Milne)
A forest bird never wants a cage. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. View quote
John Muir
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. View quote
George Jean Nathan
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. View quote
Willa Cather
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. View quote
Anna Freud
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet. View quote
Karen Blixen
The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature. View quote
Jane Goodall
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. View quote
Napoleon Hill
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. (Susan George)
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. View quote
Yvonne Strahovski
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! View quote
Camille Claudel
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth. View quote
Francis Parkman
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle. View quote
Francis Parkman
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. View quote
Alfred Noyes
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. View quote
Chinua Achebe
I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And [Edward's] words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites. (Anne Rice)
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. View quote
William Gibson
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed. View quote
Kristin Kreuk
I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing. View quote
Steven Wright