Quote by Jesse L. Byock

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods. They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather.”

— Ayn Rand

“In the forest, we boys were food.”

— Dave Eggers

“... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.”

— Tom Franklin

“If we ran into the woods, well, that might put us back in the situation we’d been in for most of the day, being…

— Bobby Adair

“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious…

— Willa Cather

“They were hunters. But now, as night closed in on them, and the swamp became black and hot and close, they were becoming prey.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest,…

— Jacob Grimm

“The trees were like black skeletons reaching to the sky, pleading with their bony arms for the sun to get stronger.”

— J.R. Ward

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were…

— Sheri S. Tepper