Forests and trees Quote by George Pope Morris

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

— John Wright

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

Forests are the lungs of our land…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Hermann Hesse

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

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

— William Blake

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

— Elton John

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

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

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

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery