Forest Quotes

‘The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.’ – John Muir

‘A forest bird never wants a cage.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.’ – Cary Kennedy

‘If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?’ – Jenny Weber

‘I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.’ – Fahadh Faasil

‘It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it’s just about getting the outline of the forest.’ – Jeff Koons

‘Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.’ – James Lovelock

‘But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.’ – Alan Watts

‘The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.’ – Jane Goodall

‘When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.’ – Tomas Transtromer

‘The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.’ – Willa Cather

‘The world’s a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.’ – George Villiers

‘If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?’ – Steven Wright

‘The death of the forest is the end of our life.’ – Dorothy Stang

‘Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.’ – Chanakya

‘Liberalism is a cancer; it’s a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.’ – Dan Bongino

‘Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.’ – Marcel Proust

‘The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.’ – Lao Tzu

‘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

‘When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.’ – Mr. T

‘The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.’ – Kim Jong-un

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

‘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.’ – Gunter Grass

‘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

‘This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.’ – Woody Guthrie

‘If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.’ – Peter Benchley

‘Anywhere which is in a forest, that’s my zen place.’ – Raveena Tandon

‘We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.’ – Hal Borland

‘I live in a house in a forest about 20 minutes out of Copenhagen, with my actress wife Rikke and my four children – my son Louis, 20, from a previous relationship, and our three: Charlie, ten, Miles, eight, and Nomi, six.’ – Kim Bodnia

‘The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.’ – John Muir

‘I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.’ – Terence McKenna

‘Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.’ – Dan Quayle

‘From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.’ – Jane Goodall

‘I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.’ – Denis Waitley

‘A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.’ – David Douglas

‘A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Save the elephants, and then you save the forest – and then you save yourself.’ – Mark Shand

‘I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.’ – Antonio Carlos Jobim

‘I grew up in the small German village of Bosingen, which is located between Black Forest and the state capital of Stuttgart. And when I say small, I mean small. In our village, there were no more than 1,700 people. And we all loved football, but there weren’t a lot of places for us boys around town to play in.’ – Joshua Kimmich

‘If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘These landscapes aren’t breaking news or necessarily even illegal. These are intentional, purposeful landscapes, whether to extend our cities or build a mine or put a road in or clear a forest. I’ve been photographing that which has been intended by us; it’s not an accident.’ – Edward Burtynsky

‘When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.’ – John Burnside

‘I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘I’m kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.’ – Anne Lamott

‘The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.’ – James Cameron

‘I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.’ – Jane Goodall

‘I’m developing some new kinds of robotic firefighting vehicles to help with the massive forest fires we’re dealing with in the West.’ – Jamie Hyneman

‘One of the very first ghost stories I read – and that was in a forest rest house, where it is a bit scarier – was by M.R. James. He is one of the pioneers of ghost stories. And the book was called ‘Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary.” – Ruskin Bond

‘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

‘All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.’ – Michael Ende

‘No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.’ – John Muir

‘AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.’ – Richard Preston

‘I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I’m no stranger to that sort of landscape.’ – Alex Turner

‘I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.’ – Anupam Kher

‘Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.’ – Rick Renzi

‘If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.’ – Susan George

‘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

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

‘We run around so much – with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I’ve gotta clean up the oceans. I’ve gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you’re not centered and you don’t have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you’re not going to do a very good job.’ – Ed Begley, Jr.

‘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

‘In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.’ – Dick Gregory

‘I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.’ – Gordon Lightfoot

‘In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.’ – Paul Stamets

‘I think the audience doesn’t know a movie’s lit, but they feel it. Because you’ve walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.’ – Emmanuel Lubezki

‘I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.’ – Atul Kulkarni

‘If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.’ – Peter Benchley

‘You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you’re simply not the same as when you started out.’ – Jim Harrison

‘Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.’ – Chris Kilham

‘The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don’t create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.’ – Roberto Unger

‘I have gone to the forest.’ – Knut Hamsun

‘Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.’ – Henry Walter Bates

‘I am a born-again atheist, so there isn’t going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.’ – Felix Dennis

‘A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.’ – P. T. Barnum

‘I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom’s family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn’t a big forest, but it was enough. When you’re a kid, it feels gigantic.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.’ – Jane Goodall

‘The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.’ – John Muir

‘I grew up in Chicago, so I’ve always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we’d watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters – they were the biggest things I’ve ever seen!’ – Kyle Chandler

‘Even if one tree falls down it wouldn’t affect the entire forest.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘One of the most memorable and frightening things when I was four or five was Kate Bush doing ‘Wuthering Heights.’ She did it outside, in a forest, and she did this thing where she looked straight into the camera, and it’s the most frightening thing for a kid to see, but it just stuck in my head.’ – Matt Berry

‘To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn’t seem to give a very full picture of the world.’ – Rupert Sheldrake

‘I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.’ – Harrison Ford

‘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 entire Party, the whole army, and all the people should conduct a vigorous forest restoration campaign to make the mountains of the country thick with forests.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.’ – Raj Thackeray

‘I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.’ – Patrick Bamford

‘I think women have a unique talent for being able to see the forest and the trees at the same time.’ – Bozoma Saint John

‘That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.’ – Michael Berryman

‘You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.’ – Johan Eliasch

‘My parents used to play me this album when I couldn’t go to sleep. It was called ‘Deep Forest.’ I think it was a self-titled record. It’s actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.’ – Flume

‘In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions in the Ardennes Forest, the site of their original Blitzkrieg success against the French in 1940.’ – Saul David

‘Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.’ – Edmonia Lewis

‘Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.’ – Theodore William Richards

‘All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren’t the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.’ – Billie Eilish

‘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

‘The heart of another is a dark forest.’ – Gloria Vanderbilt

‘Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don’t record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.’ – Brian Eno

‘I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.’ – A. Whitney Brown

‘Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There’s not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.’ – Gabe Newell

‘Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn’t change that for anything.’ – Raymond Burr

‘We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.’ – Steven Pinker

‘Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.’ – V. S. Naipaul

‘Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work – ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds – things like that.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.’ – Jane Goodall

‘In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.’ – John Muir

‘When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.’ – 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

‘Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes – plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks.’ – George Monbiot

‘Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.’ – Morris Gleitzman

‘Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as ‘the dancing mushroom.’ According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.’ – Paul Stamets

‘The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.’ – Barbara W. Tuchman

‘Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?’ – Conrad Veidt

‘If I have my way, I’m going to dissolve the Forest Service. They’re in the business of harvesting trees and they’re not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?’ – Don Young

‘The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.’ – Richard Gough

‘Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.’ – Henry Walter Bates

‘The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.’ – Jack Dee

‘My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you’re going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it’s seems like I’m looking out over a forest.’ – Haley Joel Osment

‘Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.’ – Jared Diamond

‘The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.’ – James Hogg

‘The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘I weren’t an actor, I’d be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.’ – Ricky Schroder

‘In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.’ – Ellsworth Huntington

‘As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.’ – Ellsworth Huntington

‘It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.’ – Greg Walden

‘We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don’t see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn’t need a draft.’ – Montel Williams

‘I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!’ – Camille Claudel

‘There’s a basic kind of tension here. It’s between those who say, I’d like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that’s an economically productive thing for me to do.’ – Bruce Babbitt

‘There was one occasion when I was very young – eight years or seven years old – that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.’ – Shimon Peres

‘We’re doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.’ – Glenn Danzig

‘We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me – he’d gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.’ – Dwight Yoakam

‘And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.’ – John Sexton

‘Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.’ – John Sexton

‘The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.’ – Gilbert White

‘Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.’ – Leonard Boswell

‘We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.’ – Anna Freud

‘If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood – there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 ‘o clock.’ – Gustav Klimt

‘You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.’ – Knut Hamsun

‘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

‘By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.’ – Kenzaburo Oe

‘It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘I don’t want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.’ – Dorothy Stang

‘Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.’ – Rick Renzi

‘The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water’s edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.’ – Ernest Thompson Seton

‘The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.’ – Henry Chadwick

‘The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.’ – Martha Gellhorn

‘Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We’re progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.’ – Franz Grillparzer

‘A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.’ – Carlos Salinas de Gortari

‘One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn’t see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.’ – Abraham Pais

‘I’ve been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘I had great friends, support and teaching at Wake Forest.’ – Tim Duncan

‘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

‘There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I’d jump on a plane and then I’d be on the ‘Nurse Jackie’ set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.’ – Peter Facinelli

‘Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.’ – Elizabeth Debicki

‘My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends.’ – Anna Torv

‘I’ve been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods… forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.’ – Gary Locke

‘Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.’ – Maynard James Keenan

‘All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It’s a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.’ – Rene Redzepi

‘Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home… and eating it.’ – Rene Redzepi

‘I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn’t even have cable. I’m serious.’ – Kat Dennings

‘You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we’ve had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.’ – Iain Duncan Smith

‘China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010.’ – Hu Jintao

‘I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.’ – Wendell Berry

‘When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.’ – Paula Poundstone

‘I’m now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I’m a new man, but perhaps I’m not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.’ – Vince Cable

‘We start ‘The Butler’ in June and that’s incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It’s a phenomenal script and a great, great role – I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.’ – David Oyelowo

‘As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It’s a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.’ – Jane Siberry

‘We did a ‘Vanity Fair’ spread for ‘The Hunger Games,’ and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.’ – Alexander Ludwig

‘My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.’ – Walton Goggins

‘No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.’ – Lana Parrilla

‘At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn’t look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that’s completely typical of Seattle. You can’t quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?’ – Jonathan Raban

‘Your body’s made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.’ – Dolph Lundgren

‘I grew up in a forest. It’s like a room. It’s protected. Like a cathedral… it is a place between heaven and earth.’ – Anselm Kiefer

‘I can’t see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.’ – Sloane Crosley

‘If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you’re missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don’t see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.’ – Brett Hoebel

‘Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.’ – Elizabeth George

‘If you’ve ever walked a mile into a virgin forest – you know, like a deep forest where trees have been uncut – the energy is totally different from the shopping mall.’ – James Redfield

‘Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I’d always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I’ve always regarded fire as my friend.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.’ – Pat Paulsen

‘If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.’ – MS Dhoni

‘The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we’re closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.’ – Jeremy Grantham

‘In Africa, you know, if you’re poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.’ – Emmanuel Jal

‘The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It’s bleak and your neighbours hate you.’ – Felix Dennis

‘If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they’ll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they’ll go drill there.’ – Woody Harrelson

‘True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.’ – Bayard Taylor

‘Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That’s what the neocortical column looks like.’ – Henry Markram

‘Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it’s work that takes me all around the globe – from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘I went to an ACC school, Wake Forest, I’m a big college basketball fan, and it was just a natural interest for me.’ – Lee Norris

‘The Humpback Trail on New Zealand’s South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea.’ – Toby Stephens

‘Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.’ – Paul Stamets

‘Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.’ – Rick Atkinson

‘I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind.’ – Annie Dillard

‘I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely ‘timber!” – Ireland Baldwin

‘Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add – as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn’t simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.’ – Michio Kaku

‘When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.’ – Dinaw Mengestu

‘On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.’ – Chris Kilham

‘Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘There’s even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘As the words of my book, ‘The Bloodless Revolution,’ accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.’ – Tristram Stuart

‘The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.’ – James Fenimore Cooper

‘Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media’s all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.’ – Corneille Ewango

‘Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.’ – Corneille Ewango

‘Fiction’s essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.’ – Guy Davenport

‘If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you’re talking civil unrest, war, mud slides – the whole bloody lot.’ – Mark Shand

‘In ‘Snow White and the Hunstman,’ when we see them in the Dark Forest, you’re allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.’ – Evan Daugherty

‘I do as much outdoor stuff as I can. What I’ve done is I bought a house in the middle of Hollywood, but I live in the forest. I literally live in an area that looks kind of like where I camped as a kid, but in the middle of Hollywood. It’s called Laurel Canyon.’ – Greg Cipes

‘The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where ‘As You Like It’ is set. It was idyllic.’ – Kate Fleetwood

‘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

‘I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.’ – Elizabeth George

‘When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they’ve got, told me where the rebels were – about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.’ – Robert Fisk

‘I wanted to be in ‘The Emerald Forest.’ I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!’ – Powers Boothe

‘Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I’ve spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they’re beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.’ – David Quammen

‘Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else – roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.’ – Ramez Naam

‘I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time ‘Torak’ did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I’d better go and do it.’ – Michelle Paver

‘I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn’t realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn’t remember it.’ – Michelle Paver

‘To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.’ – Michelle Paver

‘I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall – there’s less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.’ – Paolo Bacigalupi

‘A forest – the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England’s violent new masters to hunt boar and deer – is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.’ – John Burnside

‘I believed then – in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult – that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.’ – Jennifer McMahon

‘Each day when I’m walking with my dog through the damp forest, I’m thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.’ – Chevy Stevens

‘If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they’re scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.’ – Richard Preston

‘I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid.’ – Anthony Pratt

‘Bahia is the Amazon’s geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia’s large rivers.’ – Bill Buford

‘The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth’s plant and animal population. I hadn’t anticipated it would be so loud.’ – Bill Buford

‘I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.’ – Damon Galgut

‘My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.’ – Caitlin Kittredge

‘My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing ‘The Bill,’ I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as ‘Training Day’ or ‘Boyz n the Hood.’ So to have worked with some of the greats I’ve admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.’ – Aml Ameen

‘There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.’ – Jack Dangermond

‘We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.’ – Guilherme Leal

‘Reading ‘The Third Sex’ feels a bit like flying in a veering helicopter over a rain forest that is disappearing before one’s eyes.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it’s one of the most frightening sounds you’ll ever hear.’ – Tim Cope

‘If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.’ – Marv Levy

‘I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.’ – Sondra Radvanovsky

‘The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.’ – John Barrasso

‘My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace.’ – Rory MacLean

‘When I was a kid, I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry… it’s hard to describe, really – something that was almost see-through, but it just moved in front of me.’ – Rhys Darby

‘Waste paper is like a forest – paper recycles itself, generation after generation.’ – Zhang Yin

‘Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it’s also one of the major forces determining our future: It’s the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I don’t really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I’d hang out down there.’ – John McEnroe

‘It’s fun being a princess, but it’s not very practical! You’re trudging through the forest and the mud and all of the elements. You kind of think, ‘How did they do this back then?’ Thank God I can put on my Nike trainers and walk around the rest of the day!’ – Sarah Gadon

‘The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘The quality of our Airmen in Montana coupled with the proven mission excellence of the 120th Airlift Wing, and historical need for assets to fight the devastating forest fires we continue to see in Montana and the Northwest United States, should have mandated the relocation of these assets to Montana.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘I want the Forest Service to look at a vista with scenery, not only at lumber with a price tag.’ – Michael Frome

‘Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into ‘treasure mountains,’ into ‘gold mountains.” – Kim Jong-un

‘I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing… Kids would tease me, calling me ‘Little Bush.’ But… I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.’ – Keith Barry

‘A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.’ – Simon Rattle

‘I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it’s like floating through a forest.’ – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

‘I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.’ – Jason Momoa

‘The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.’ – Timothy Morton

‘We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We’re here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It’s insane.’ – Eduardo Bhatia

‘The first home system we had was an Apple II, and I remember playing a game called ‘Conan.’ It should have been called ‘Tarzan’ because you were essentially Conan running around a forest with a boomerang, but it was obviously Tarzan.’ – Thomas Middleditch

‘For an artist or an entertainer, it’s the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you’re done your work and escape.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘When everybody’s looking at you, it does your head in. When you’re always on the inside, sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments.’ – Paul Polman

‘Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.’ – Johan Eliasch

‘A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it’s a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.’ – Ma Yansong

‘Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.’ – Ma Yansong

‘A company that can’t fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.’ – Andy Dunn

‘The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.’ – David Farr

‘There’s nothing more frightening – and exciting – than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you’ve got to go through the dark to get to the light. That’s what the forest is all about.’ – David Farr

‘When you go into a forest, anything can happen.’ – David Farr

‘When I was 23, my Norwegian relatives taught me how to sit still. During the long sunlit evenings in the summer of 1992, my cousins would lead me across the farm to the edge of the forest, each of us lugging a folding chair. There, in a scraggly bramble of wild blueberries, we would set them down a few yards apart, each in our own little patch.’ – Hope Jahren

‘I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.’ – Hope Jahren

‘When I signed on and went and did ‘Catching Fire,’ the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there’s forest. There’s old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii.’ – Francis Lawrence

‘The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.’ – Elif Batuman

‘I got to portray a park ranger on ‘Gilmore Girls,’ the reunion films. And when I was a kid, that was one of the things that I wanted to be – I wanted to be a forest ranger or park ranger.’ – Peter Krause

‘Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.’ – Joey Ramone

‘It couldn’t interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what’s the point of walking into a theater to see a living room? A sofa in a forest? Now you’re talking.’ – John Tiffany

‘During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs – you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through – but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘Mom would say, ‘Get out of the house,’ and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we’d try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.’ – Luke Hemsworth

‘Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.’ – Kyle

‘I’m from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.’ – Debra Granik

‘My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.’ – Bobby Berk

‘I used to beg my mom to let me put a real bed out in forest so I could lie there and listen to the sounds of the forest while still having all the comforts of home.’ – Bobby Berk

‘A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.’ – Chris Ofili

‘I planted trees for five years in the middle of nowhere, but a lot of Canadian college students do that for money. You go out in the forest for a summer and plant trees. You get, like, eight cents a tree, but it adds up.’ – Gavin McInnes

‘I’ve been offered, I think it was ¬£300,000 to play live two concerts in London some years ago. And I said ‘No. No thanks.’ I would rather stay home here and change oil on my car, or collect some rotten wood from the forest, spread on my ruined former agricultural land.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That’s all I’m doing. I’m staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.’ – Mirko Cro Cop

‘Wake Forest came knocking on the door, and I accepted that offer. It changed my life completely.’ – Muggsy Bogues

‘Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.’ – Brad Bird

‘We lived in this area that was basically two circular roads next to each other. There were forests and pastures and stuff. I remember walking around the forest quite a bit.’ – Markus Persson

‘I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.’ – Patrick Bamford

‘A lot of people said I left Nottingham Forest for the wrong reasons, but that wasn’t true. I wanted to play for a top team like Chelsea.’ – Patrick Bamford

‘We were wild-eyed hippies from the late ’60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding ’60s – that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.’ – Nancy Wilson

‘Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You’ll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you run through the forest, through the trees?’ Well, I’ve never seen a tree on a football field.’ – Brendan Rodgers

‘I cannot pick one single forest to be a favourite, but I am in love with the Indian jungles – be it Madhumalai and Kabini in South India or Tadoba and Pench National Park in Maharashtra. The wildlife in Satpura and Corbett National Park can’t be missed, either.’ – Raveena Tandon

‘In the world of globalization, the fossil fuel masters of the universe who are digging up our boreal forest and our muskeg and scraping out the bitumen would rather have Canadians take all the risks – and then the oceans take the risks to ship it to refineries that they’ve already built in other countries rather than create jobs for Canadians here.’ – Elizabeth May

‘To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does.’ – Robert Eggers

‘I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.’ – Robert Eggers

‘Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.’ – Robert Eggers

‘Defeating a terrorist organization is like fighting a forest fire; there’s never a clear moment of victory, and even after you’ve won, you have to watch carefully.’ – Eric Greitens

‘In terms of beautiful views while eating, I love Babington House in Somerset looking onto beautiful lake, beds, hills and forest.’ – Daisy Lowe

‘I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It’s like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.’ – Olga Tokarczuk

‘The Haida people taught me when you are depleted, go to places that are sacred for you – the ocean, or a forest. That is where you will find incredible energy.’ – Severn Cullis-Suzuki

‘I wish we did, in a way, grow up in the forest and we didn’t all just post bikini pictures and work out just to look good.’ – Esme Creed-Miles

‘I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn’t call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.’ – Bart Millard

‘My camping experiences have been miserable. Beginning with my mother sending us off for summer camping with Forest School Camps. I swear the tents were WW1 army surplus.’ – Hilary Farr

‘I love nature, I really do. I love the great outdoors, I love the concept of quiet, peaceful solitude shared only with the loons calling to each other across the water, and Bambi and Thumper in the forest, and a simple tent between me and the starry, starry sky.’ – Hilary Farr

‘I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you’re walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear birds, but as night comes in, it becomes kind of weird, you can walk through a desert, a swamp, and the sounds merge and change with you.’ – C418

‘Idras Elba was from Forest Gate – where I am from – there are a lot of great people around if they can be given a chance or have the belief.’ – Anthony Yarde

‘After music, trees are my passion. My great-grandfather was a forester, so maybe it is genetic. My father would take me for walks in the forest and sometimes I would play truant with him. ‘You won’t learn anything in a communist school, my boy,’ he would say. He loved trees too.’ – Krzysztof Penderecki

‘There’s a lot of steps between there not being music and there being music. Composition is one part of that, but if no one performs it… It’s like if a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?’ – Chris Thile

‘Maine’s lumber and forest products industry is key to our state’s economy and supports thousands of jobs across the state.’ – Sara Gideon

‘I used to be terrified of a particular film – I can’t remember what it was called. It was set in a forest, and there was lots of oil coming from trees. And someone fell, and ever since then… Oh, and I also dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.’ – Sophie Cookson

‘I grew up in Nova Scotia, and my uncle lived close to the Bay of Fundy. We would walk across the mud flats out to an island, and then you’d climb a cliff and be in the forest. And if the water came in, the basin would fill up with, like, a 30-foot tide. It was phenomenal.’ – James Tupper

‘The Shiv Sena says that when it comes to power, they will declare Aarey as a forest. How will they declare it a forest when there won’t be any trees left?’ – Raj Thackeray

‘I met Forest Whitaker on ‘Our Family Wedding’ and we struck up a real bond and friendship.’ – Rick Famuyiwa

‘I lived in the south near Tughlaqabad. My father was in the Air Force station. I used to go to Tughlaqabad Fort, and there’s a huge city park there a big city forest, near the ruins. They were so beautiful. So I have been to those parks.’ – Shoojit Sircar

‘Just play football. If you are a writer, you must write. It’s the best way to practise. If I’m a pianist, I don’t need to run in the forest for one hour or two hours to be a good pianist. I must play piano. So this is what we are doing all the time. Play football. Simple ideas.’ – Carlos Carvalhal

‘There’s one part of the forest in Wales, it’s like a natural bowl, and when we drove into it last time, it was getting dark. And as you came over the hill you could see fireworks being set off, the whole place was lit up and you could see this huge crowd all jumping up and down and cheering.’ – Colin McRae

‘I’m not saying I’ll be the next Tim Duncan. But it was about time for Wake Forest to produce another super productive big man.’ – John Collins

‘I have vivid memories of leaving North Borneo at 8, and I remember the vast canopy of rain forest.’ – Clare Rewcastle Brown

‘Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it’s flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where the water goes up to 15 meters high. This floods the forest, so a lot of the fish that normally stay close together are suddenly very hard to find.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘People always want us to go back to the Island of the Dolls in Mexico or to Chernobyl – which I’m not going to go back to – or to this haunted forest in Romania.’ – Josh Gates

‘I’m always trying to see the forest for the trees. I try to look at broader brushstrokes and focus on what we can be happy about. That’s my nature.’ – Margaret Hoover

‘The old saying ‘If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it – Does it still make a sound?’ can be adapted to: ‘If someone does something interesting on the Internet and nobody is around to talk about it – Did it still make an impact?” – Peter Sunde

‘I have managed at League Two and League One level and then went to Nottingham Forest for a short time as assistant when Gary Brazil was caretaker before going into the Wales U21 job and I have now been involved for four years.’ – Rob Page

‘I have a reading problem and it’s hard for me to read books. But I had no problem with the ‘Emerald Forest’ script.’ – Charley Boorman

‘We invented the Black Forest trifle. It’s got all the flavours of the Black Forest Gateau but in a trifle, using chocolate custard. You’ve got your kirsch, your cherries, the chocolate custard, the sponge and the cream.’ – Dave Myers

‘It’s time to chart a new path in forest management that’s guided by science, protects rural communities, benefits the environment, and actively manages our forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘Forest management is a pillar of rural communities.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘It’s been a part of my game that I’ve worked on a lot because before I went to Forest I couldn’t head the ball to save my life so it was one of those things where I’ve kept training on it.’ – Michail Antonio

‘I kept going out on loan because I wasn’t getting much time at Reading. Then I went to Sheffield Wednesday and then Nottingham Forest and I managed to get to West Ham, where I always wanted to be – the Premier League.’ – Michail Antonio

‘My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about ‘the little people.’ When I went into the forest I used to look for them.’ – Agnes Moorehead

‘Having ground my teeth at educational theorists who say Shakespeare is irrelevant to inner-city children, I was overjoyed to be there when a class of 12-year-olds who had studied Twelfth Night were asked if they wanted to see it performed. A forest of hands shot up.’ – Damian Green

‘I coped OK with eating guinea pig, while staying at the stunning Mashpi Lodge, up in the cloud forest of Ecuador – but that’s because mine was all cut up and served nicely.’ – Monica Galetti

‘I go to my local football league team – Forest Green – and it’s a working-class environment, which is what football was when I was growing up.’ – Tony Adams

‘I was researching amazing spaces across the world and one project blew my mind – the glass igloos of Finland. There are 65 of these structures set in 1200 acres of pine forest.’ – George Clarke

‘Look, as an institutionalist who recognizes the power of incrementalism in the slow but steady march to equality, I’m used to seeing the forest for the trees.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘I like being in nature-walking, climbing trees. I grew up almost causing forest fires.’ – Harris Dickinson