When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
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.
However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
When Zarathustra was alone. . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest. . . they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.
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.
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest. . . pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
May the forests be with you and with your children.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
It is the duty of every citizen, for his own welfare, if for no other patriotic reason, to support and fight for and possibly initiate measures having to do with conservation of soil, water and forests.
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.