Forest Quotes

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tongue, Beast, Framed

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Career, Two, Else

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

Down, While, Left

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

Everything, Understand, Tell

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya

Family, Single, Son

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty, Men, Old

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
Steven Wright

Tell, Joke, Nobody

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

Through, Universe, Wilderness

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

Fire, Away, Dream

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

Men, Human, Sea

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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
George Jean Nathan

Through, Path, Sound

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle

Silence, Whole, Fall

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne

Waiting, Others, Sometimes

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A. Whitney Brown

Society, Frustrated, Petrified

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust

Dark, Soul, Trees

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Heart, Single, Fire

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather

Heart, Dark, Another

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
James Lovelock

Create, Desert, Sadly

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Dick Gregory

Through, Country, America

A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen

Bird, Wants, Cage

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
Scott Adams

Family, Home, Live

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno

Strange, Off, Quality

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
Knut Hamsun

Art, Here, Makes

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
Dan Quayle

Win, Trying, Point

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
Bill Bradley

Time, Why, Moment

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
Maynard James Keenan

Home, National, Edge

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
V. S. Naipaul

Life, Crisis, Political

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman

Past, Friend, Old

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
Iain Duncan Smith

Violence, Often, Result

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