We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people. . . The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
The death of the forest is the end of our life.
After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.
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.
I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. But bear in the forest.
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.
We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.
In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.
To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
. . . When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle. "Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
