Alphabet Quote by Mary Kingsley

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its…

— Henry Louis Gates

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

— Lee Friedlander

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life…

— Maria Montessori

“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

“Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic library! Read…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because…

— Bill Mollison

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists.…

— Corneille Ewango

What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility!…

— Susan Fenimore Cooper

“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…

— Beryl Markham

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of…

— David Quammen

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in…

— Laurent Baheux

Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become,…

— Robert Sobukwe