170 Awe-inspiring Quotes About Trees and Forests
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I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.

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

Caring for a tree is caring for your soul.

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

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

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

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

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.

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

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

Stories matter in an enchanted forest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

A culture is no better than its woods.

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.

I never saw a discontented tree.

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

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

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

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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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.

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

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

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

I have gone to the forest.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.