Species Quote by Thomas Hardy

“Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of…

— Maryrose Wood

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

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American…

— Charles de Lint

Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots…

— Jack Handey

If trees could speak they wouldn't

— Dorianne Laux

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

— Jane Goodall

Like people, trees are all individuals.

— David Hockney

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense… [T]he wood-spirits…

— Walt Whitman

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and…

— Neal Shusterman

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think…

— Henry David Thoreau