- Nov 07, 2020
Forest Quotes
Words on nature, growth, and the outdoors
These forest quotes draw a comparison between paper recycling and a forest's natural cycle, alongside more physical reflections on hiking and camping outdoors. A few touch on forest resources used More broadly for fuel and land.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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- Nov 07, 2020