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.
But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there. . . and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. . . But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.
A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.
It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible.
They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
The forests have taught man liberty.
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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.
She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.
The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.
In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.