Age life Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

— Henry David Thoreau

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

— Agnes Varda

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

— Li Bingbing

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.

— Mitchell Joachim

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save…

— Bill Mollison

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's…

— Henry David Thoreau

We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves…

— Paul Watson

“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation…

— Bill McKibben

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when…

— Aldo Leopold

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for…

— Michael Pollan

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

— Isaac Asimov