City life Quote by Leisha Hailey

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

— John James Audubon

Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large…

— Tilda Swinton

Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!

— Reggie Jackson

I have gone to the forest.

— Knut Hamsun

“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming…

— Tod Wodicka

On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“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

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our…

— Adrienne Rich

“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where…

— Jack Kerouac

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

— David Farr

Clear the trees, then you'll see through to me.

— KevinTerribly