185 Quotes About Forests

The channel of Roaring Run itself was less than six feet wide. He stood at the edge of the brook watching the water undulate as it coursed over the moss-slicked rocks. The aroma was primeval, of earth and decaying plants and water and rotten wood. Mike loved the smell. He took a deep breath and held it in his lungs.

When trying to 'see the forest for the trees,' you can’t see the forest when completely lost in the thick of it or when stuck in one particular tree.

The forest was not dark, because darkness has nothing to do with the forest—the forest is made of life, of light—but the trees moved with wind and subtle creatures.

The estimated value of the water filtration and storage services provided by the earth's forests is more than $4 trillion a year; as a corollary, for every 10 percent reduction of forest land, the cost of treating drinking water grow by about 20 percent.

In the continental United States, 83 percent of the land area is now within two-thirds of a mile from a road. Even in large forested regions, two-thirds of the land is within a football-field-length of a road or a forest edge.

The annual volume of forest felled during the Obama administration was higher than all the years during the George W. Bush administration but one. In the year Obama took office, 2009, the cut was 1,954,092,000 board feet; at the end of the Obama administration in 2016 it was up to 2,536,601,000 board feet, an increase of almost 30 percent. Much of this was done under the pretext of preventing wildfire.

The forest was almost like a garden - no brambles, no thorns, nothing to stumble over, no rotten stumps, no fallen branches, all mellow to look at, melodious to hear, every kind of bird, all singing, no awed hush, no vast echoes, just beautiful, smiling woods, not solemn, solemn, solemn like our forests. This exquisite, enchanting gentleness was perfect for one day, but not for always - we were Canadians.

Die Spielleute nennen ihn den Wald, in dem die Nacht schläft", hatte der starke Mann erklärt, als sie in eine Schlucht durchquerten, die selbst bei Tag so dunkel war, dass sie kaum ihre Hand vor Augen sah. "Aber die Moosweibchen haben ihn den Bärtigen Wald getauft, wegen all der heilenden Flechten, die an den Rinden wachsen." Ja, der Name gefiel ihr besser. Durch den Frost sahen vielen Bäume tatsächlich aus wie betagte Riesen.

the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light