"A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood."
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"When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come."
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"Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men."
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"It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity."
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"The only water in the forest is the River."
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"He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass"
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"I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment."
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"The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest."
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"It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose."
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"Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight."
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"It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time."
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"Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it."
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"Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while."
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"We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer."
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"We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped"
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"A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime."
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"In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others"
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