A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
森林
Forest
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
进入宇宙最清晰的途径是穿过森林荒野。
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?
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
可靠的信任之路是穿过怀疑的密林。
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
如果舌头不是为了发音而被造出来的，人在森林里还是野兽。
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。
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
如果你砍伐了一片森林，如果没有更多的树，你拥有多少锯木厂都没有关系。
We will call out to each other in the darkness of the Great Forest, so that we may not be lost to one another.
我们要在大森林的黑暗中彼此呼叫，免得彼此迷路。
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。
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
橡树倒下时，整个森林都回响着它倒下的声音，但是，一阵不被人注意的微风，却在寂静中播下了一百颗橡子。
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
你不要行事正直，因为你往树林去，必看见直树被砍倒，弯曲的树还存留。
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
但我要告诉你隐士们意识到什么。如果你走到一个很远很远的森林里，变得非常安静，你就会明白，你和所有的事情都有联系。
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
每一本书都是一句名言;每一所房子都是森林、矿山和采石场的报价单;每个人都是他祖先的语录。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Willows are weak but they bind other wood.
杨柳虽脆弱，却能缚住其他树木。
The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.
岸边的白色云杉林是这里最令人振奋、最壮丽的地方。沿着梯田斜坡向下，一直到冲积土的水边，它是成行排列的。
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。
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。
Don't expect a cherry tree from an acorn.
别指望橡子能长成樱桃树。
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。