Confucius
Philosopher
"An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it."
Forests quotes
Forests
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e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"Your head is a living forest full of songbirds."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!""
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."
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"If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest."
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"She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her."
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"Life on earth is inconceivable without trees."
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"Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives."
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"To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect."
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"Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest."
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."
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"Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails."
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"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
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"The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts."
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"The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner."
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"We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world."
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"Language is an old-growth forest of the mind."
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"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."
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"When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us."
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"He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice."
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"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."
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"Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees."
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"A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone."
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