A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
森林
Forest
A forest bird never wants a cage.
森林里的鸟从来不需要笼子。
Don't crow till you're out of the woods.
你还没有走出森林就不要啼叫。
The forest has ears, and field has eyes.
森林有耳朵，田野有眼睛。
Don't expect a cherry tree from an acorn.
别指望橡子能长成樱桃树。
Willows are weak but they bind other wood.
杨柳虽脆弱，却能缚住其他树木。
Your head is a living forest full of song birds.
你的头是充满鸣禽的活林。
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
有些人穿过森林，却没有看到柴火。
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
一粒橡子就能造出一千片森林。
Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
虽然你住在森林附近，但不要浪费木柴。
To one who does not know , a small garden is a forest.
对于不知道的人来说，小花园就是森林。
I had great friends, support and teaching at Wake Forest.
我在维克森林大学有很好的朋友、支持和教学。
I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
我不是演员，我想成为野生动物生物学家或护林员。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
这里有一种基本的张力。有人说，我想把这片森林砍伐掉，把它砍成锯材，因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
人类每天都在变得越来越聪明。事实上，似乎是这样。至少我们正在取得进展。毫无疑问，我们正在向森林深处推进。
The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
世界是一片森林，所有的人都迷失了方向;虽然各人走的路不同，却都走错了路。
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
事实上，一个普通的沙漠比森林或草原更能养活多种多样的植物。
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
如果你在森林里讲一个笑话，但是没有人笑，那是一个笑话吗?