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“When standing in the middle of the marvelous mountains and deep forests, in the earthy smell of all beginnings and endings, I often find myself asking what I have if all my possessions were taken a...”
“I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!”
“ I can only wish to remember the good timesand forget the things I refuse to remember. They are nothing but heartache.-Sophia to Zarah, The Forest of Evergreen: Found in the Wilderness”
“These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.”
“This forest silence improves anyone.”
“I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as strictly, living like a beast in the forest from one midsummer to the next, without fi...”
“The light from his torch painted the barren forest in shades of his own reflection, black-haired, gray-eyed and pale for want of a touch. He pulled his cloak close, unable to determine which made h...”
“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought, especially at night.”
“I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.”
“The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination...”
“John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.”
“The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.”
“Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.”
“If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.”
“The way ran zigzag through a forest of pine which the bitter wind, still that morning, had turned to ice; every bough was adorned with lines of stalactite which shivered and glittered in the mornin...”
“Only with a leafcan I talk of the forest,”
“If a tree falls in the woods when no one is there, does it still make a noise? If a girl dies in the woods when no one is there, does anyone care? If no one knows I am here, do I even exist?”
“In the evenings, Sam performs exercises to prepare his body for love-making with Franz. He practices kissing (something hed once hated) by smooching deer lips, antelope ears, frog anuses, and the g...”
“[S]he realized quite abruptly that this thing which took him off, which kept him out so many hours day after day, this thing that was against her own little will and instinctswas enormous as the se...”
“He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.”
