Forest Preserve Quotes

#1. We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens.

Learned Hand

#2. The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

George Harrison

#3. The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#4. Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out.

Steve Grand

#6. If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

Sam Keen

#7. Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.

Bex Taylor-Klaus

#8. I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French ... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#9. O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

George Whitefield

#10. May we graciously accept our responsibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

Jared Diamond

#12. We're close to where the nature preserve starts now, Charlotte says to Henry. The magic begins here. Can you feel it? She suspects he probably can't. She walks here daily, looking for something, peace mostly. The forest gives her more than she comes looking for, every time.

J.J. Brown

#13. It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Bill Gates

#14. The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.

Gifford Pinchot

#15. During the prayers of the day, there was one less "amen".

Phindiwe Nkosi

#16. If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

Lauryn Hill