Quotations About / On: FOREST

  • 41.
    When through the old oak forest I am gone,
    Let me not wander in a barren dream,
    But when I am consumed in the fire,
    Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. On Sitting Down to Read "King Lear" Once Again (l. 11-14). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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  • 42.
    When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.
    (Robert Benchley (1889-1945), U.S. writer, humorist. After 1903What? "That Nerve Strain," Harper & Brothers (1938).)
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  • 43.
    (3) In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Runes.")
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  • 44.
    If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.
    (Sting [Gordon Matthew Sumner] (b. 1951), British rock musician. International Herald Tribune (Paris, April 14, 1989).)
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  • 45.
    These are not the artificial forests of an English king,—a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but those of nature. The aborigines have never been dispossessed, nor nature disforested.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Ktaadn" (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 89, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 46.
    Would you sell the colors of your sunset and the fragrance
    Of your flowers, and the passionate wonder of your forest
    For a creed that will not let you dance?
    (Helene Johnson (b. 1907), U.S. poet. Magalu (l. 22-24). . . Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company.)
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  • 47.
    Exiled from his friends,
    is kept too long distressed
    in an island, sea swept,
    in the sea midst,
    a forest island,
    haunt of a spirit.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Odyssey.")
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  • 48.
    I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.
    (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's public addresses), side 6, Jackson Day dinner (Jan. 8, 1940), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960).)
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  • 49.
    Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden.
    Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I.
    When I was at home, I was in a better place, but travellers must be content.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Rosalind and Touchstone, in As You Like It, act 2, sc. 4, l. 15-18.)
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  • 50.
    The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Ktaadn" (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, pp. 5-6, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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