Best fields & forests Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.”

People Men Needs Use Today America Numbers Stage Fields Depends Happenings Forests Rational Reasonable Grain Continents Irrational Finite Plague Attacking North America Massacres Pests

Author:Edward Abbey

“The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.”

Needs Should Humans Persons Made Values Realizing Cutting Tree Fields Deserve Cat Reactions Forests Treated Made It Old Lady Firewood Cutting Down

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.”

Hands Joy Song Grows Lord Tree Fields Mountain Forests Destroyed Hills Everlasting Renown Pine Trees Myrtle

Author:Isaiah

“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Mind Long Past Water Hours Fields Wind Casts Forests Wheels Autumn Spells Grind Mills Binding Long Day Reaper Autumn Wind

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.”

Humans Heart Has Beens Whole Earth Church Sin Blood Streets Crime Fields Guilt Committed Forests Spots Scent Human Heart Stains

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.”

People Mind Heart Doe Given Fields Mountain India Towns Lifetime Affection Forests Desert Village Heart And Mind Headlines Love And Affection

Author:Ruskin Bond

“Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.”

Source: Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls

“I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.”

“O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.”

Lying Lost Fields Glory Forests Naked Hills Branches Brown Autumn Shade Fades October Withered Blackbirds Withered Leaves

Author:George Arnold

“In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.”

Example Fields Calling Concepts Forests Ecological Analogies Ecosystems Swamps

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.”

“I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.”

Knows World Want Bigs Eye Turns Lord Mystery Sky Creation Fields Flower Evolution Mountain Rivers Forests Exploration Valleys Dna Bangs Majesty

Author:Anne Rice

“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men”

Men Animal Cry Fields Forests Witness Welfare Beast Animal Rights Scorn Animal Welfare Dens Animal Life Soulless Wildlife Animals

Author:William Inge

“When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.”

People Has Beens Justice Economic Movement Fields Activity Survival Rivers Environmental Forests Destroyed Stolen Our Environment Biodiversity

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I want to walk in the forest, I want to walk in the fields, I just want to lie down on the grass and feel the sun against my skin. I want to be able to hold my family close to me and not have someone tell me time's up.”

Want Feels Art Home Able Lying Walks Sun Fields Garden My Family Skins Tired Plant Forests Grass

Author:Leonard Peltier

“I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.”

Years Humans Natural Attention Fields Towns Forests Academic Possums

Author:Bill Mollison

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