51 Metaphors for forest

And her great parks, her lakes gay with pleasure-boats or choked with lily- pads, her haunted forests, where your taxicab would startle the wild deer, are the most beautiful I have ever seen in any city in the world.

And the other way forest, too, and a kind of brokenwhat is it?amby-theatre of black and rusty cinders rising out of it all, and the sea in a kind of bay in the middle.

It was the good thought of a wanderer to say, "The forest is the poor man's jacket."

He thought, perhaps, of all the possibilities of discovery that still lay in the black tangle beneath him; for to the naturalist the virgin forests of Borneo are still a wonderland full of strange questions and half-suspected discoveries.

The forest (a whole century's shade) Must be one wasteful ruin made.

Huge oak-trees now began to mingle and show themselves more and more frequently among the other timber; and gradually the forest became a great oak wood unintruded upon by any less noble tree.

The dog we now call the Staghound appears to answer better than any other to the description given to us of the old English Hound, which was so much valued when the country was less enclosed, and the numerous and extensive forests were the harbours of the wild deer.

The Richelieu is a better fish pond, and these forests are a finer deer preserve than any of which the king can boast.

On an autumn afternoon, when the forest is a blaze of crimson and yellow, this spot is seen at its loveliestthe long shadows and the golden sunlight giving the scene a painted, almost too brilliant effect.

Then the forest became an enchanted region of white aspens, golden-green aspens, purple spruces, dark green pines, maples a blaze of vermilion, cerise, scarlet, magenta, roseand slopes of dull red sumac.

While all the spruce forest in which he had lived had been his natural range and districthis own kind of land with which he felt close and intimate relationsthis was even more his home than his own birthplace.

Nevertheless, I assert that many a forest was once a pocketful of acorns.

THE FORESTS The coniferous forests of the Sierra are the grandest and most beautiful in the world, and grow in a delightful climate on the most interesting and accessible of mountain-ranges, yet strange to say they are not well known.

"The forests in these times are a hard teacher, but they're bright and good boys, just the same.

That Forest with its thousand years of growth and its deep spreading being was some such slumbering monster, yes.

Everybody had also found out beyond discussion or doubt that De Forest was Gerald's escort home on that occasion, but that the engagement between them was broken off.

Other popular national forests are the Angeles in southern California, the Pike and Colorado in Colorado, and the Oregon and Wenatcheethe Pacific Northwest.

The forest is the world, and the bodies of the lovers are things natural and unashamed, and Venus is the tyrannous instinct that controls the blood in spring.

He has only to conceive wooded marshes, at the mouth of great rivers, slowly sinking beneath the sea; the forests in them killed by the water, and then covered up by layers of sand, brought down from inland, till that new layer became dry land, to carry a fresh crop of vegetation.

From where he was this man could not see the lagoon, moreover there were only two lamps alight, one on each side of the lake, and the forest of pillars was wrapt in the profoundest obscurity.

Her forests will soon be a thing of the past.

Looking westward, their colors are lost in a blaze of light; but in other directions the whole forest is a flower-garden, in which these late roses burn, alternating with green, while the so-called "gardeners," walking here and there, perchance, beneath, with spade and water-pot, see only a few little asters amid withered leaves.

EPPING FOREST, as it now exists in the SE. of Essex, is a remnant5600 acresof the famous Epping or Waltham Forest, which once extended over all Essex, and which then served as a royal hunting-ground, is now a favourite pleasure-ground and valuable field for explorations of botanical and entomological collectors.

To Muskwa it was all a greenish golden haze below him; the depths seemed illimitable; the forest along the stream was only a black streak, and the parklike clumps of balsams and cedars on the farther slopes looked like very small bosks of thorn or buffalo willow.

In the same manner as the forest is an accomplice through its density, so the legislation was an accomplice by its obscurity.

51 Metaphors for  forest