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“The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...”

Humans Doe Earth Speak Sound Water Silence Music Listening Quiet Rain Rivers Hearing Tongue Forests Noise Desert Immense Puzzles

Author:Pablo Neruda

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

Said Running Used Water Rain Rivers Moved Edges Forests Streams Sparkle

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.”

Knows Humans Science Knowledge Tree Economic Development Happenings Bird Rain Economics Forests Biology Links Ecology Ants Brazil Human Development Madagascar

Author:E. O. Wilson

“"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.”

“Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.”

Way Two Body Action Science Strong Force Secret Fire Sea Movement Wind Rain Rivers Wave Currents Forests Ice Internals Flood Two Ways Earthquakes Geology Forest Fires Strong Winds

Author:Mikhail Lomonosov

“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.”

Earth Cutting Ocean Rain Forests Toasts Rainy Rainy Day Reefs Coral Reefs Cutting Down

Author:Michael Berryman

“We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.”

“My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.”

“Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.”

“We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.”

Body Nature Drink Ocean Rain Breaths Forests

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”

World Life Joy Felt Water Nature This World Wind Mountain Rain Forests Oppression Desert Heat Fury Frost Nature Life Nature And Life

Book:Summit of the years

Source: Summit of the years

“At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity”

Firsts Humanity Fighting Realizing Environment Tree Rain Environmental Forests Conservation Jungle Amazon Rubber Environmentalist Deforestation Rainforest Amazon Rainforest

Author:Chico Mendes

“What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.”

World Want Long Night Environment Wonderful Speech Rain Forests Innocent Comforting Ridges

Author:Thomas Merton

“Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.”

“Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.”

Kids Rain Forests Destroyed

Author:Kristin Kreuk

“The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.”

Suffering Rain Forests Best Things Drought

Author:Dan Quayle

“If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.”

Ifs Desire Fall Grows Water Sleep Meditation Tree Flower Sorrow Findings Rain Filled Fruit Forests Grass Monkeys Finding Peace Vines Drop Of Water Lotuses Lotus Flower After The Rain

Author:Gautama Buddha

“In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.”

Years Home Tree Bears Rain Climate Clouds Disappear Forests Ice Lions Butterfly Packs Snakes Palms Apes Frogs Whales Seals Turtles Reefs Otters Polar Bears Coral Reefs Cheetahs

Author:Eban Goodstein

“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.”

Cases Draws Rain Forests Straws Siberia

Author:Jack Dee

“A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.”

“Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music of the rain forest is very rich music. So the knowledge is out there. And I also believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. With that kind of inquisitiveness, one discovers things that were unknown before.”

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Author:Yusef Lateef

“Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.”

Source: Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life

“The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, “Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.”

Knows Earth Remember Passion Dark Creativity Cutting Rain Medicine Sexuality Forests Feminine Do You Know Wet Hostile Amazon Tangled Cutting Down

Book:Shaman, Healer, Sage

Source: Shaman, Healer, Sage

“October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.”

Fall Rain Gold Forests Weary October Damp October And Fall

Author:David Gray

“My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.”

Children Real Stars Sound Secret Silence Talking Written Sea Sky Listening Rain Forests Boat Sail Sea And Sky

Book:The Long Way

Source: The Long Way

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