185 Quotes About Forests

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.