#forest

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#alligators #besides #certainly #common #during

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#deserts #education #forests #nature #nothing

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#awake #beating #cover #each #fall

That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#coral #cutting #down #earth #forest

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest. ↗

— Jack Dee

#draw #forest #had #jack #now

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#even #forest #i #kid #living

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#empty #forest #i #into #myself

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#fire #forest #front #step #until

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#environment #every #every time #forest #i