F Quotes
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“Foreshadow, plot buster or red herring... only time will tell: P69 -- Cassie waited; in the evening light through the window her eyes looked huge, opaque and watchful. I knew she was giving me a chance to say, Fuck the hair clip, let’s forget we ever found it. Even now the temptation, tired and profitless though it may be, is to wonder what would have happened if I had.”
Source: In the Woods
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.”
Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.”
Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
“Foresight does not hold a crystal ball. It prepares you for the swerves. The future of prediction is imagination.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Foresight does not seek to predict, but to drive imagination to inform decision-making and the actions required today in light of the potential futures ahead. Foresight prepares you for the swerves.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.”
“Foresight is the capacity to investigate the drivers of change and explore possible futures systemically to inform short-term decision-making.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Foresight is the cause of Europe's present wars. If one would take pains to forsee nothing, the whole world would be tranquil, and I do not believe that one would be worse off for not waging war.”
Source: Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds
“Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.”
“Forest...A home in a confused world.”
“Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“Forest have now lost six matches without winning.”
“Forest is forest.”
“Forest is the best port of the wise man!”
“Forest losses from clearing land for farming and ranching, usually by burning, are concentrated in the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Borneo.”
Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
“Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!”
“Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.”
“Forest sociologist Robert Lee says city dwellers are more likely to feel guilt toward nature, which he attributes to disconnection from nature rather than empathy toward it: "They are very likely to regard trees as a symbol of immortality or continuity," wrote Lee in one study. Rural residents, by contrast, "can live with the ambivalence of loving nature and cutting trees. It's an acceptance that that's life.”
Source: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
“Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!”
“Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.”
Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal
“Forestry is the work of nation builders.”
“Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”
“Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers”
“Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.”
“Forests are apocalypses; and the beating of the wings of a little soul makes an agonising sound under their monstrous vault.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.”
“Forests are no one's property to destroy; They are everyone's responsibility to protect.”
“Forests are really just a repetition of patterns; it’s why people lose their minds in forests and also on oceans. The human brain needs disruption, I think, and that’s why we make things. You could say that an artist, for instance, finds patterns in everything but I think probably what an artist is really there to do is to tear a big hole in the maddening patterns, to create something that is so itself that it repels everything around it. I’m all for artificiality, is what I’m saying. It’s what humans bring to the table.”
Source: Idle Grounds
“Forests are the best case studies for economic excellence.”
“Forests are the lungs of our land.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4
“Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”
“Forests capture the most carbon dioxide on land, and existing mature, primary forests are responsible for the great majority...Protecting existing forests would have far more impact between now and 2100 than newly planted forests.”
Source: Carbon: The Book of Life
“Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.”
Source: The Practice of the Wild
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
“forests of monsterous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannible devils; mound like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion...insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and daemon arcades choked with fungous vegetation...Heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing skies.”
“Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.”
“Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.”
“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.”
Source: Introduction to Architecture
“Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.”
“Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.”
“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.”
“Forests, which I think do contain a lot mystery and traditionally are the setting for lawlessness and magic and what is outside of the rational to some degree, are still something more finite. I guess the desert and its crushing sense of infinite space is part of its connection to the mystical - on top of making you dehydrated and therefore primed for visions.”
“Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]”
“Forethought spares afterthought.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”
“Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Forever a Freshman!
The worst day writing is better than any other job!
That's the way it goes, first your money, then your clothes!
Never believe what you hear or read. Check it out first.”
Source: Bones & Me
“Forever after today, she would flex and furl her fingers, precisely as she did right now. She would roll her wrists and crack her neck. She would stretch her jaw and wonder who might next die at her hands. Who might not get away.
And forever after tonight, she would be hungry to outrun the nightmares. She would race and she would fight and she would kill again, just to make sure the ghosts were real.
They were.”
Source: Windwitch