Billy Connolly on forests
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Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
Bill MollisonBill Mollison We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
Bob BrownBob Brown If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
Bill MollisonBill Mollison If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
Bill NyeBill Nye I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.
Bettie PageBettie Page Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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