“Seedlings severed from the forest’s underground lifelines are much more likely to die than their networked counterparts.”— Ferris Jabr, nytimes.com
“The political system that you have created is all about competition. You cheat when you can, because all that matters is to win, to get power. That must come to an end, we must stop competing with each other, we need to cooperate and work together and to share the resources of the planet in a fair w…”— Greta Thunberg, eesc.europa.eu
“God created everything that surrounds me, the fields, rivers, the forests. The land is my church.”— Stephen Butchard, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Alexander Dreymon, imdb.com
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed—chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much tow…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it.…So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to s…”— John Muir, en.wikiquote.org
“Replanting tropical forests restores habitat and growing forests absorb CO2 emissions.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“Even five minutes around trees or in green spaces may improve health. Think of it as a prescription with no negative side effects that's also free.”— NYS State: Department of Environmental Conservation, dec.ny.gov
“Spending time in nature, looking at plants, water, birds and other aspects of nature gives the cognitive portion of our brain a break, allowing us to focus better and renew our ability to be patient.”— NYS State: Department of Environmental Conservation, dec.ny.gov
“I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Already desiring to explore inside and out the divine forest, so dense and alive, which tempered the new day before my eyes, without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“Mushrooms fungi a manuscript in the forest. Time myelin. Here are cucumbers. Wet. Here are carrots. Stiff. Eat these tomatoes. Bloody. Lollygagging is a butterfly in the field. Radius magnifies. The creek filled with bubbling water. A bluejay. A garden. A hand. The doe runs by and glimpses the babbl…”— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com
“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 soft evenings’ll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillness in the wilds — So I tell myself 'Be…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I go to the field where wild The lily grows, fearless, To the inaccessible Primordial vault Of the forest.”— Friedrich Hölderlin, amazon.com