When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it’s one of the most frightening sounds you’ll ever hear.
In ‘Snow White and the Hunstman,’ when we see them in the Dark Forest, you’re allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.
Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it’s also one of the major forces determining our future: It’s the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.
Waste paper is like a forest – paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.
When you go into a forest, anything can happen.
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it’s work that takes me all around the globe – from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
Each day when I’m walking with my dog through the damp forest, I’m thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don’t create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.
Wake Forest came knocking on the door, and I accepted that offer. It changed my life completely.
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
The Haida people taught me when you are depleted, go to places that are sacred for you – the ocean, or a forest. That is where you will find incredible energy.
There’s a lot of steps between there not being music and there being music. Composition is one part of that, but if no one performs it… It’s like if a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?
The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.
We did a ‘Vanity Fair’ spread for ‘The Hunger Games,’ and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.
A lot of people said I left Nottingham Forest for the wrong reasons, but that wasn’t true. I wanted to play for a top team like Chelsea.
I want the Forest Service to look at a vista with scenery, not only at lumber with a price tag.
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely ‘timber!’
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me – he’d gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.
I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid.
My parents used to play me this album when I couldn’t go to sleep. It was called ‘Deep Forest.’ I think it was a self-titled record. It’s actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.
I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.
The Shiv Sena says that when it comes to power, they will declare Aarey as a forest. How will they declare it a forest when there won’t be any trees left?
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn’t seem to give a very full picture of the world.
I believed then – in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult – that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.
My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.
To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
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.
Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.
I grew up in a forest. It’s like a room. It’s protected. Like a cathedral… it is a place between heaven and earth.
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
The quality of our Airmen in Montana coupled with the proven mission excellence of the 120th Airlift Wing, and historical need for assets to fight the devastating forest fires we continue to see in Montana and the Northwest United States, should have mandated the relocation of these assets to Montana.
I have gone to the forest.
I’m always trying to see the forest for the trees. I try to look at broader brushstrokes and focus on what we can be happy about. That’s my nature.
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.
I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing… Kids would tease me, calling me ‘Little Bush.’ But… I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.
I cannot pick one single forest to be a favourite, but I am in love with the Indian jungles – be it Madhumalai and Kabini in South India or Tadoba and Pench National Park in Maharashtra. The wildlife in Satpura and Corbett National Park can’t be missed, either.
Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying ‘He’s out there again.’
People always want us to go back to the Island of the Dolls in Mexico or to Chernobyl – which I’m not going to go back to – or to this haunted forest in Romania.
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It’s bleak and your neighbours hate you.
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.
Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
