Quotes About The Amazon Jungle

#1. She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light ...

John Connolly

#2. There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

Harlan Ellison

#3. I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

Robert Redford

#4. A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?

Jimmy Carter

#6. I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.

Sean Pertwee

#7. Wings of a half finished book across his chest.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

Adam Garcia

#9. You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that

David Grann

#10. I want people to think that I'm a magical, weird-looking freak of nature, but they really see me as a sexy Amazon jungle cat. That makes sense - I'm a little bit of both, but I definitely lean toward the narwhal side of the equation.

Kesha

#11. The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Tom Cole

#12. Except for the lack of enormous insects, suffocating humidity, malaria victims groaning in death throes, poisonous vipers as thick as mosquitoes, and rabid jungle cats madly devouring their own feet, you would have sworn you were in the Amazon rainforest.

Dean Koontz

#13. They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog.

Ally Condie

#14. Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.

Aml Ameen

#15. Keep your eyes open to all the needs you see around you.

Caitlin Crosby

#16. Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Ann Brashares

#17. It was this: Blue, teetering on the edge of offense, saying, I don't understand why you keep saying such awful things about Koreans. About yourself. And Henry saying, I will do it before anyone else can. It is the only way to not be angry all of the time.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Dan explains the trip's itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.

Michael Sanders

#19. 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

Adam McKay

#20. I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

Nate Lowman

#21. I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

Adam Driver

#22. We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.

Helene D. Gayle

#23. On a globe it looks like a swollen California. Within that space, though, are twenty-thousand-foot peaks, the world's deepest canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon), unmapped Amazon jungle and the driest desert on earth.

Mark Adams

#24. My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.

Catherine Martin