Forest Preserve

Famous quotes containing the words forest and/or preserve:

“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

“The worst of charity is, that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)