This is an assortment of exceptional forest quotes, including some inspiring quotes about forests, trees, forestry, and the woods.
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
— Chris Maser
“A forest is a living thing like a human body…each part dependent on all the other parts.”
— Louis L’Amour
“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
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
— John Muir
“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
“A forest doesn’t weep over one tree.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest.”
— Visar Zhiti
“In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow’s fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”
— T. Harv Eker
More Forest Quotes:
“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.”
― Anselm Kiefer
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.”
― Jane Goodall
“Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”
― J. Sterling Morton
“A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.”
― David Douglas
“The sacred place of silent minds and deep souls is the depths of the forest!”
— Mehmet Murat İldan
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
― Napoleon Hill
“There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.”
― Peter Wohlleben
“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.”
― Alan Watts
Even More Forest Quotes:
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united peaceful world.”
― Enos Abijah Mills
“Going for a leisurely walk in the forest feels like getting a big ol’ hug from Mother Nature.”
― Jamie Erwine
“Trees, forests, and other forms of life – you have not inherited them from your forefathers, you have borrowed them from your children yet to be born. Their preservation, their enrichment, is the solemn responsibility you bear.”
― Native American teachings
“If you walk into a forest – you hear all kinds of subtle sounds – but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
— John Muir
Quotes About The Woods:
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
— John Lubbock
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
― George Washington Carver
“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”
― John Fowles
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
― Washington Irving
“Going to the woods is going home.”
― John Muir
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