Forests Quotes

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"I`ve just bought 800 acres of forest on the border of Panama and Costa Rica. I want to buy the last "first growth forest" and turn it into a national park. It`s a human tragedy of immense proportions. Many native Indians in that region are losing their homes daily, and it`s going to affect both you and me, because that`s where most of the world`s oxygen comes from. The Amazon rain forests are the world`s lungs and without them we will not be able to breath. It`s a very scary thought and it`s not too far off."

- River Phoenix

My father was a scientist for the Forest Service. He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods. There were odd, mysterious things. That`s the kind of world I grew up in.

- David Lynch

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

- Madeleine Stowe

I`m excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public`s help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

- Robert Towne

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

- Daphne Zuniga

You can`t beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven`t done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it. (on her sexual philosophy)

- Katie Price

Everybody is aware of how rapidly Alberta is proceeding with industrial development in its forests.

- Peter Lee

It`s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

- Wangari Maathai

We now have the specter that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions rather than decrease it by sequestering CO2. This paper will undoubtedly unleash controversy, not the least of which will be political.

- David Lowe

We`ve set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

- Alain Senderens

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

- Alana Beard

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

- Albert Anderson

I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.

- Albert Anderson

One of the things that people don`t realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

- Albert Anderson

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

- Alex Lenahan

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

- Alex Saitta

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation`s ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

- Alex Walker

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

- Alex Walker

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

- Alex Walker

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

- Alex Ward

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

- Ali Dayih

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

- Alison Morano

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

- Amanda Cruz

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

- Amber Schuler

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

- Amy Sowash

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

- Andrew McCormick

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

- Andrew McCormick

I am filing this lawsuit because the Bush administration is putting at risk some of the last, most pristine portions of America`s national forests.

- Anne Lynch

(The administration`s move puts at risk) some of the last, most pristine portions of America`s national forests, ... Road building simply paves the way for logging, mining and other kinds of resource extraction.

- Anne Lynch

The Bush administration is putting at risk some of the last, most pristine portions of America`s national forests,

- Anne Lynch

Roadbuilding simply paves the way for logging, mining and other kinds of resource extraction, ... Far too much of our national forests have been trammeled and overlogged because of the maze of logging roads that have been bulldozed over the years by timber companies.

- Anne Lynch

They are all ... quite economical and inexpensive and sometimes free. Most of the national forests have some free camping. In some of the national forests in the West, all the camping is free,

- Antoine de La Salle

The bird captured on video is clearly an ivory-billed woodpecker. Amazingly, America may have another chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome forests in which it lives,

- Art Morgan

(But if Boyden grew up canoeing across cold-water lakes and tramping through the birch forests with his relatives, no one ever explained their connection. His parents were raised during the 1930s when native heritage was considered shameful and many mixed-race people would pretend to be white.) I think my grandmother lived with this quietly, unhappily, ... My mother just refused to recognise it so didn`t grow up with any kind of prejudice.

- Arthur Gray

When forests are professionally managed, they contribute greatly to our quality of life, which this property will do for decades.

- Arturo Morales

The Sierra Club endorses Vice President Gore because he is committed to cutting air and water pollution and protecting our nation`s treasured forests and wildlands.

- B. Earl Puckett

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

- Nelson Mandela

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

- Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

- Orison Swett Marden