"I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me."
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"Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire."
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"Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool."
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"Chimpanzees have given me so much. 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."
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"The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things."
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"This Forest eats itself and lives forever."
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"Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was."
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"Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive."
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"A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it."
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"The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected."
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"Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance."
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"Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it."
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"and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end."
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"A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest."
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"There is no kingdom like the forests."
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"I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me."
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"What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!"
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"Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest."
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"Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us."
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"She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it."
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