160 Awe-inspiring Quotes About Trees and Forests

I have gone to the forest.

Trees are worth more alive than dead.

Listen to the trees to hear their stories.

If love was a tree
I'd plant you a forest.

There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

There is something in the trees awaiting discovery.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

The forest will answer you in the way you call to it.

Nothing can match the joy of a forest in the
morning.

Autumn night--
Silvery moonlight,
wind in pine trees.

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

The trees will tell their secrets to those that tune in.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul

These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

We are of the forest and of magi, and we have always been.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

Talk to the forest because the forest always talks to you.

The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.

A world without forests will likely be a world without humans.

You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic!

We are living on the planet as if we have another one to go to.

I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.

He who has no dreams, let him go to a beautiful forest to have many!

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Some of the best advice you will ever hear will come from the forest.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.

Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest -- and then you save yourself.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!

Tropical rainforests are the only place you can go nowadays and not get ‘friended.'

The people are leaving, he says, and the forest is gonna come back and take what's hers.

The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.

You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.

Take me to the forest and let me sing to the wounded birds, so I heal when they fly again.

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

When you save the life of a tree, you only pay your debt as we all owe our lives to the trees!

I want the Forest Service to look at a vista with scenery, not only at lumber with a price tag.

To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does.

Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There's a stillness about them, a sort of reverence.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

Stories matter in an enchanted forest.

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

Walking away barefoot on the soft loam, with mist rising in ribbons all around her, Etty tucked the year's first violets into her hair.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

You showed me there is something in the forest to cure most anything that bothers you.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility -- our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.

Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.

For you, it's all about money, money, money. But what about the forests I say? Some of those trees have been there for hundreds of years. What right have you to destroy that?

The sacred place of silent minds and deep souls is the depths of the forest!

In the silence of the woods
among the wildflowers
butterflies danced.

If I were to die this is where I want my life to end in a forest where my soul can find peace.

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Losing the trees may lead to the extinction of mankind.

I would make my home, with joy and gladness, in a dark forest.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.

If you've ever walked a mile into a virgin forest -- you know, like a deep forest where trees have been uncut -- the energy is totally different from the shopping mall.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

In the thick of the woods with a carpet of matted needles, the sharp scent of pine, and the fragrant breezes of a winter wind, she was home.

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.

I find my soul in forests.

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.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

The forest talks but a good hunter only hears it by learning its language.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

There's nothing more frightening -- and exciting -- than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about.

I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better education in a forest rather than a desk.

Tree is a soldier, forest is an army! And let us wish that all the battles against this army is lost!

A forest full of trees is as important and valuable as a mine full of gold.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future.

Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

The wise live in the forest.

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants' sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

Leave city, leave reality; enter forest, enter fantasy!

Every forest has its own character, its own whispered rumors and smells.

A church, to be a church, must be enveloped by a forest.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Caring for a tree is caring for your soul.

If a church represents the efforts of the devout to invite God to join them in a place created by people, then a forest is a place where God already resides, and people can choose to recognize or ignore his presence.

There is life and death in all forest, the life will bring you beauty and the dead will bring you new life!

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.

The fresh, pungent summer smells of the forest bring me home to the natural, forgotten spiritual place deep inside me. The part of me where hope lives, where prayers are answered and life feels good.

He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!

When you become silent to listen to the sounds of the forest, if the forest becomes silent too, then you can be sure that the forest too became silent to listen to you!

I never saw a discontented tree.

Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Trees are your best antiques.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Like people, trees are all individuals.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination.

All things share the same breath -- the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

We are tropical forest people.

It is widely acknowledged by researchers that the human environmental classification is a tropical forest animal.

If you destroy thriving woodlands to establish a so-called smart city, it won't be a ‘development.' Development and conservation should go hand in hand.

Gold is a luxury. Trees are necessities. Man can live and thrive without gold, but we cannot survive without trees.

Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
but as they sway they connect at the roots.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Did the nightmares of the cities put out the fire of your soul? The best way to rekindle that fire is to surrender your soul to the forest!

Few people know that trees in the Amazon put more water into the sky, in the form of steam, than the Amazon River transports to sea. We really need to take care of forests: they are an incredible value to all of us!

When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

Whenever there is a breeze in the old forest, you might, for a moment, realize that the trees are singing. There, on the wind, are the voices of sugarberry and juniper and maple.

The trees were dappling again. They loved to dapple, it seemed to be their favorite pastime.

How humans love plundering a forest, like spoiled children with their parents' ATM cards and no concept of moderation.

Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

A culture is no better than its woods.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.