Forest Quotes

Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?

~ Daniel J. Rice

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

~ Douglas R. Hofstadter

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 of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest for very long, being all so much the same. But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I haven't been yet. Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds I've never seen in the fall (I've seen them in the summer - but that's a different pond). That list gets longer every year, the more I learn, and doubtless it will grow until the day I die. So many glades; so little time.

~ Bill Mckibben

The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, joggers, and bicyclists, come between us. I followed her past a field where girls were playing soccer, and into the woods bordering Catamount Creek. The smell of pine needles underfoot was sharp, pungent. I seemed to know that I would always associate that smell with this afternoon, and with Dorcas.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

The leaves drifted silently to the ground in the crisp autumn air. I inhaled deeply, the smell of burning bonfires far, far away enchanting my nostrils.Autumn had come early this year and I was excited for the change in colors that had already begun to take over the trees of the forest that surrounded Grandmother’s house.

~ Emma Rose Kraus

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

~ Viktor Tatarczuk

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

~ Kim Jong-Un

The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!

~ Paul Walker

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

~ Anna Freud

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

~ A. A. Milne

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

~ Tim Duncan

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

~ Günter Grass

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

~ Chen Shui-Bian

A forest bird never wants a cage.

~ Henrik Ibsen

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

~ Murray Bartlett

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

~ Dorothy Stang

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

~ Chanakya

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

~ Scott Adams

The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.

~ Kyle Maclachlan

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

~ John Dyer

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

~ Douglas Brinkley

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

~ John Burnside

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

~ Willa Cather

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

~ Victor Hugo

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

~ Bas Rutten

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

~ James Lovelock

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

~ Bill Bradley

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

~ Susan George

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

~ A. Whitney Brown