Building Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

— George Perkins Marsh

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least…

— E. F. Schumacher

The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be.…

— Monty Don

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

— Michael Bloomberg

Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed…

— Pope John Paul II

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass,…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Blocks of flats could change everything, thought Mma Ramotswe. They were designed for people, but people were not necessarily designed for them. These flats…

— Alexander McCall Smith

We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its…

— George Perkins Marsh

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the…

— Richard Rogers

We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the…

— Anton Chekhov