Forests Quote by John Lothrop Motley

“of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at”

— Corrie ten Boom

“Forests to the [early] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out…

— Sara Maitland

No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

— William Bulfin

My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into…

— Vandana Shiva

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

— Kim Jong-un

The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate…

— John Muir

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

— Washington Irving

As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our horizons were…

— George Monbiot

“forests are the ornaments of the earth, that they teach mankind to understand beauty and attune his mind to lofty sentiments. Forests temper a…

— Anton Chekhov

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

— Richard Flanagan

A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to…

— John Burnside