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Quotes About Forest

rose from the plain before them, peaceful and solid—very solid—in the autumn sun. The day was warm and beautiful, and the air was alive with the rich, earthy smells of the river and forest. He'd never seen such a forest. The trees that edged the plain and grew all along the banks of the St. Lawrence grew impenetrably thick, now blazing with gold and crimson. Seen against the darkness of the water and the impossible deep blue of the vast October sky, the whole
~ Diana Gabaldon
It was a great temptation. He felt the pull of the dark wild forest, above all, the lure of freedom. If he could but walk away into the greenwood, and stay there Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But he shook his head.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I had seen a herd of elephant traveling through dense native forest… pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
~ Isak Dinesen
In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.
~ Italo Calvino
From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us back here, to the center of an empty horizon.
~ Italo Calvino
Orlando, sevda orman? sana göre yer de?ildir! Alçakça tuzaklar?ndan seni hiçbir kalkan?n koruyamayaca?? bir dü?man?n pe?inden ko?uyorsun.
~ Italo Calvino
The sun in its slow descent filtered great cathedral-moats of gold through latticed boughs of pine and birch and maple. It was that time of day- or afternoon- when the forest's breath, sun-stunned, yearning for night, impalpably swoons to the slow pulsations of blood and time and silence.
~ Dalton Trumbo
I jump to my feet in this dream within a dream. Although I am quite dry, I discover that the trees of the forest in which I have slept stand rooted in water. Beyond them, at the forest's edge, stretches a tarn. From the steely face of the tarn rises a mist, and there, where the mist swirls thickest, shimmering like a pale column risen from its depths, dripping tarn water and rotted rose petals, stands Gunther.
~ Dalton Trumbo
I love butterflies," Andrea said. "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a happy family of butterflies." "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree in a forest where your butterflies can live," said Emily. "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead," I said.
~ Dan Gutman
Within the magnificent cathedral of the Vermont forest, the joy of young love sang.
~ Unknown
When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.
~ Ian Harding
Rows of books around me stand, Fence me in on either hand; Through that forest of dead words I would hunt the living birds -- So I write these lines for you Who have felt the death-wish too, All the wires are cut, my friends Live beyond the severed ends.
~ Louis MacNeice
He knew time could heal. But it could also do more damage. A forest fire, spread over time, would consume everything.
~ Louise Penny
Dr. Vincent Gilbert lived in the heart of the forest. Away from human conflict, but also away from human contact. It was a compromise he was more than happy to make.
~ Louise Penny
Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick.
~ Louise Penny
Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees.
~ Louise Penny
Bob has made fire torches to light people's way through the woods to the bonfire. Jo said, "I helped him make them, so I think if we call the fire brigade nice and early, perhaps about five forty-five, there's a good chance that some of the forest can be saved.
~ Louise Rennison
I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs.
~ Unknown
And Venus coupled their bodies in the forest; What brought them together was either that both wanted it, That the man was violent and his lust was threatening, Or some such gift as acorns, berries and pears.
~ Unknown
I die. O my hair falls out and my flesh rots and my bones are cracked by the hungry ta!a'an. He drops me behind him all around the forest and nothing will grow where his excrement from my marrow falls. As the years pass the forest dies from the poison of my remains. The soil washes into the sean and poisons the fish and all die. O the embarrassment.
~ Joe Haldeman
Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? The harbor cold to the mating ships, And you have lost as you stand by the balcony With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath. A strong impression torn from the descending light But night is guilty. You knew the shadow In the trunk was raving But as you keep growing hungry you forget. The distant box is open. A sound of grain Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.
~ John Ashbery
THE RANGER'S VOW LOYAL, BRAVE, KIND AND TRUE— KEEPER OF THE OLD AND NEW— I GUARD THE WILD, DEFEND THE WEAK, MARK THE PATH, AND VIRTUE SEEK. FOREST SPIRITS HEAR ME NOW AS I SPEAK MY RANGER'S VOW.
~ John August
FOREST OF DOOM: This is usually the home of mobile and prehensile TREES. There will e giant SPIDERS too, and Dwellers near the centre who will want to SACRIFICE any stranger to their God. It is best to avoid the place if possible. But the Management usually insists on sending you there. An OLD RUINED CITY is sometimes situated in the heart of this Forest. See also WOODS.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.
~ Diego Rivera