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Letter "F" » forests
«The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality»
Author: Irving Babbit
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
collapse, forests, minister, pulp, quantity, triviality
«There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire.»
«Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.»
«New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States»
Author: Simeon Strunsky
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
deserts, forests, hermit, hermits, New York State
«Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.»
«The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.»
«The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
comparison, conservation, done for, forests, industry, insignificant, in general, production, shown
«The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acorn, acorns, forests, The Creation
«The forests and the meadows are rejuvenated and refreshed with the Love of God, the All-powerful, Infinite Primal Being. My mind yearns to meet the Lord.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
all powerful, forests, primal, refreshed, rejuvenate, rejuvenated, rejuvenating
«The Lord is totally pervading the water, the land, and all space. He is contained in the forests as well.»
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