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Letter "F" » forest
«Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.»
Author: Adriaan Kortlandt
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
chimpanzee, chimpanzees, colors, forest, gaze, my supper, particularly, pawpaw, picking, pickings, retire, retires, sunset, sunsets, supper, suppers
«I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Both of Us, distances, forest, good-bye, goodbye, hair, hey, kisses, pillow, sleepy, smiled, soft, storm, The Pillow
«If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause»
Author: Paul Tindale
| Keywords:
applause, bet, falls, forest, I Bet You, lands, politician, screams
«In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
arrows, confusion, depths, forest, Great Sea, in the midst, javelin, javelins, midst, precipice, precipices, sleep in
«It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.»
«Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves.»
«Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...»
«If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?»
«Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
awe, forest, gorge, gorged, organic, thrill, twilight
«Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
co, cos, forest, islands, mingle, mingling, roots, the darkness, underground
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