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“The forest has shrunk And fear has expanded, The forests have dwindled, There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned.”

Lying Force Fear Animal Moon Forests Abandoned Lightning

Author:Visar Zhiti

“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”

Firsts Lying Fire Society Skills Forests Smoke Sniffing Forest Fires

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”

Men Firsts Whole Facts America Lying History Creation Thousand Forests Britain Rome Egypt Greece Encyclopedia Acorns Greece And Rome

Book:Twelve Essays

Source: Twelve Essays

“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.”

Light Lying Garden Forests Lakes Finest Meadows Glaciers

Book:Our National Parks

Source: Our National Parks

“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.”

Real Earth Lying Nations Water Wealth Resources Forests Soil Wildlife Minerals Real Wealth

Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.”

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Running Lying Names Waiting Sound Knowing Spring Shadow Ghost Forests Branches Flash Phantoms Snares Elude Elude You

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.”

World Spirit Lying Grows Sleep Growing Up Modern Century Forests Concrete Modern World Arrested Venice Enchantment Sleeping Beauty

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“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