#forests

An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be--what they once were, before our ancestors' descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days. ("The Striding Place") ↗

— Gertrude Atherton

#forests #woods #life

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#death #extinction #facing #forests #life

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. ↗

— Karl Marx

#always #been #civilization #comparison #completely

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#come #contribute #dramatically #forests #green

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#acceptable #acres #action #because #big

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#destroys #forests #fresh #giving #itself

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#fields #forests #how #location #michael

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. ↗

— Simeon Strunsky

#forests #found #hermits #more #mountains

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#except #forests #good #great #home

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#backward #company #easy #forests #fur