#forest

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#came #curtain #dark #field #flat

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. ↗

— Susan George

#down #forest #how #many #matter

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible. ↗

— Gary Locke

#calm #earthquakes #fires #floods #forest

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

— James Lovelock

#desert #easier #forest #much #sadly

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#close #forests #i #jobs #know

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#combine #continent #deserts #dream #efforts

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence

I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#acre #built #feet #five #forest

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#crucial #deadly #eastern #expedite #experienced