Abstract Quote by Monty Don

“If you, like me, are essentially a city person, then the chances are that when you imagine a wood you picture a simple thing:…

— Tana French

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

— Howard Jacobson

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

— Craig Ferguson

Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table. The fact that…

— Rupert Friend

“There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of…

— Jack Handey

“An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get…

— Gertrude Atherton

I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon…But at least a forester worked…

— Gifford Pinchot

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

— Roger Deakin