Forests and trees Quote by George Pope Morris

“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