Best Quote by John Muir

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

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

— Susan George

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or…

— Wendell Berry

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

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

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which…

— Henry David Thoreau

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always…

— Douglas Malloch

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

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations…

— Frederick William Robertson

It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth…

— Joseph LeConte

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises…

— William Shenstone