"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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"Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow."
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"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."
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"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"
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"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."
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"The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests"
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"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves."
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"I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls."
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"For the forest to be green, each tree must be green."
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"I found myself within a forest dark."
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"We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia."
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"The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me."
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"Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut."
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"Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies."
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"I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it."
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"Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was."
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