Forest Quotes
- “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
- “Forests may be gorgeous, but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.” – Andrea Gibson
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
- “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A forest bird never wants a cage.” – Henrik Ibsen
- “The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings.” – Buddhist Sutra
- “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “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.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
- “Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.” – Unknown
- “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” – Margaret Mead
- “Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system—the lungs of the planet—and we are on the verge of switching it off.” – Prince Charles
- “The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it… No place for greed or anger there.” – Pha Pachak
- “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.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Forests were the first temples of the divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.” – François-René de Chateaubriand
- “The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.” – Kay Johnson
- “In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me… I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you… you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’ So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” – Tom Waits
- “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir
- “The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.” – Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
