Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
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Max Ehrmann
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929
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John Vaillant
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.
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Neil Gaiman
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
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Richard Mabey
Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!
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Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [..].
As long as they are carnivorous and/or humanoid, the monster's form matters little. Whether it is Tyrannosaurus rex, saber toothed tiger, grizzly bear, werewolf, bogeyman, vampire, Wendigo, Rangda, Grendel, Moby-Dick, Joseph Stalin, the Devil, or any other manifestation of the Beast, all are objects of...
Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The...
(..)Fate has alÂways been a poÂtent force in RusÂsia, where, for genÂerÂations, citÂizens have had litÂtle conÂtrol over their own desÂtinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as ZaÂitÂsev, Dvornik, and OnofreÂcuk had disÂcovÂered, it can alÂso be a tiger.
Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.
