28 Quotes by Bernd Heinrich

Life here in this part of Maine is almost inconceivable without wood, and woods. We burn it for heat. Some cut it for a living. Many earn their livelihood from it by making paper, if not toboggans, snowshoes, apple boxes, or canoes. But it all comes from trees. Trees are our lifeblood, in more ways that one. And that is the problem. There are woods, and there is wood, and the two have different uses.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dreams, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place by E. B. White

Movement is the essence of life.

Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed.

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

The essential thing is to run period!And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

There may be no more compelling goal than a close one, but there is none more lasting than a distant one not yet attained.

Like other animals, we play at those things that are important to our survival, and social play promotes social cohesion.

The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.