Defoliated Quotes & Sayings

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. — Paulo Coelho

Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world. — Aurora Levins Morales

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Death could not erase her, she is permanent. — Veronica Roth

Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice. — Bill Ayers

I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain, and seen the south-facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of new deer trails. I have seen every edible bush and seedling browsed, first to anaemic desuetude, and then to death. I have seen every edible tree defoliated to the height of a saddlehorn. Such a mountain looks as if someone had given God a new pruning shears, and forbidden Him all other exercise. In the end the starved bones of the hoped-for deer herd, dead of its own too-much, bleach with the bones of the dead sage, or molder under the high-lined junipers.
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. — Aldo Leopold