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Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest.

Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest.
– Matshona Dhliwayo

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  2. A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. – Ursula K Le Guin
  3. Tall and built like a dense forest, Clint’s broad shoulders made a girl want to learn how to scale trees. Except me. I wanted to start a forest fire. – JC McKenzie
  4. Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don’t cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees. – Daniyal Umar
  5. No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  6. A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. A short axe can still cut down tall trees. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  9. Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently. – Richie Norton
  10. Forest is forest. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  11. It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps… – Tanith Lee
  12. Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  13. I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing. – Forest Whitaker
  14. The forest, like a casino, always wins. That’s why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty. – Gitty Daneshvari
  15. I have a cottage in a dense forest and the animals of the forest are members of my cottage. – Tanmaya Guru
  16. Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. – Haruki Murakami
  17. Though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees. – Jennifer Sodini
  18. We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina. – Magda M Olchawska
  19. Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees – Adrienne Rich
  20. I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  21. Life is a walk through the forest. Don’t fear the trees, fear what lurks behind them. – Richelle E Goodrich
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  23. When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. – Alice Walker
  24. The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers. – Shannon Mullen
  25. I’m the poster child for Sister-Zoned. My face pops up on so many pseudo family trees, I could start my own forest. – Marilyn A Hepburn
  26. Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one. – Shannon L Alder
  28. Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives. – Howard W Hunter
  29. My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories. – Myron Uhlberg
  30. You know it’s ART, when the check clears. – Andy Warhol
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  32. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
  33. There’s no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased) – Patrick Rothfuss
  34. Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc. – Uzoma Nnadi
  35. A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! – Anamika Mishra
  36. Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway… missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place. – Jamie McGuire
  37. Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either. – Richelle E Goodrich
  38. I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought. – Alberto Caeiro
  39. Trees, O trees, why can’t you hold on to your leaves? – Marty Rubin
  40. God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson

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