Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In…

“The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.”

— L. Frank Baum

“Her excess of vitality was generous and singular, Woodman chased away the melancholia, decanting stories and seeing the other side of things, as if…

— Giuseppe Casetti

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an…

— Hermann Hesse

The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations…

— Enos Mills

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as…

— John Muir

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to…

— Anton Chekhov

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

— Elton John

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

— John Wright

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

— William Blake

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an…

— Henry David Thoreau

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

— Hermann Hesse

Forests are the lungs of our land…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Julius Sterling Morton

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

— John Muir