“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.” WorldYearsHas BeensBigsWaterMillionsAirThis WorldPlanetsOceanSeasonsSpeciesIncludingForestsWeatherAtmosphereTemperatureLiving OnGreat GiftsWoods And Forests Author:Rebecca Solnit
“September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.” FirstsCountryFeltSeasonsLuckWoodsSmellForestsEveningSmokeTeaAutumnSeptemberCurtainsGood LuckBegin Again Book:More Was Lost: A Memoir Source: More Was Lost: A Memoir
“You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.” AirSeasonsPlantWinterAccidentsForestsNativeExposedDelicateTenacityGreenhousesFirmness Book:Waverley Novels Source: Waverley Novels
“I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons” StoriesFoundBeliefTreeSubjectsSeasonsForestsVeinsTree Of Life Book:, said the shotgun to the head. Source: , said the shotgun to the head.
“Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.” Has BeensRememberMemoriesGrowingTreeShareCenturyExampleSeasonsAncientStormRingsForestsWeatherSunlightTemperature Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
“Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.” EarthTimeFallForgetShapesRedSeasonsIntentionForgottenForestsAutumnFossilsDriftingGraveyard Author:Al Purdy
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.” FirstsStillsSeemsEyeTurnsThreeProcessSawsPrideColdSummerSpringFairsSeasonsHotGreenWinterForestsAutumnYellowPerfumeJuneAprilFour SeasonsWinter Cold Author:William Shakespeare
“Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.” ProcessNumbersFireResearchSeasonsForestsCrucialReincarnationLegislationEasternRestorationBipartisanForest Fires Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers