Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. — John Muir

 

What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain future that is unfolding. ― Jim Robbins, The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet

 

The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it. — Gautama Buddha

 

The sacred place of silent minds and deep souls is the depths of the forest! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. ― Gustave Flaubert, November

 

Humankind’s greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world. — Jonathon Porritt

 

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land. — Daniel J. Rice

 

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

 

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it. — Ted Trueblood

 

Once upon a real time, there were two girls, sisters. The little one followed the elder like night follows day, and they were as different from each other as sun and moon, but like the sun and moon, neither would be the same without the other…. The Unicorn Quest. ― Kamilla Benko

 

Nature is the art of God. — Dante Alighieri

 

Have you seen these insightful Earth Day quotes that inspire and eco-friendly lifestyle?

 

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

 

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. — Hal Borland

 

All forests have their own personality. I don’t just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest… they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can’t be mistaken for one you’d hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species. ― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

 

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live. — Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan

 

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity. — Chico Mendes

 

If you destroy thriving woodlands to establish a so-called smart city, it won’t be a ‘development.’ Development and conservation should go hand in hand. ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

 

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. — Martin Luther King Jr.

 

The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil. She wasn’t a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn’t run away from herself. She’d have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself. ― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

 

If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before! Amit Ray

 

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

 

And that’s why the youngest sister went after the oldest, as annoying and as impossible as she was… ― Kamilla Benko

A world without forests will likely be a world without humans. ― Steven Magee

 

Who else goes to the woods to find peace only to discover themself in the process? I find forests unclutter the mind with each breath the trees afford me. ― Michael Poeltl

 

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. — Khalil Gibran

 

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. — E. O. Wilson

The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we’re pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though… ― Ramez Naam, Crux

 

By discovering nature, you discover yourself. — Maxime Lagacé

 

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. — Isaac Newton

 

Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through. — Courtney M. Privett

 

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

 

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. — Aldo Leopold

 

I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. — Bindi Irwin

 

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. — George Eliot

 

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. ― Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

 

Whenever we encounter wild animals in nature, we must only ever show kindness and compassion. — Paul Oxton

 

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. — Gregory Maguire

 

It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps… ― Tanith Lee

 

Those who wish to pet and baby wildlife love them, but those who respect their natures and wish to let them live their natural lives, love them more. — Edwin Way Teale

 

There has now emerged a global call for restoration of deforested lands, given the growing recognition that forests provide a disproportionate amount of the services—drinking and irrigation water, climate

change mitigation, stormwater management, and recreation—that allow humanity to survive in the long term. ― Daniel C Esty, A Better Planet Lib/E: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future

 

Who’s gonna bring the wild animals some hope? If we don’t love them the way they are. — Munia Khan

 

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love. — Steve Irwin

 

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world Munia Khan

 

The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit. — Suzy Kassem

 

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. — Martin Buber

 

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem. — A. A. Milne

 

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men. — Laurent Baheux

 

Adopt the pace of nature. —Her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see. — Albert Einstein

 

The alarming issue of global warming ought to be addressed by the collaboration of individuals and the government. There must be strict sanction against release of pollutants by industries along with awareness events at all levels. ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

 

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. — Chris Maser

 

The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry

 

Deforestation is changing our climate, harming people and the natural world. We must, and can, reverse this trend. — Jane Goodall

 

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall

 

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them. — Wangari Maathai

 

If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests! Mehmet Murat ildan

 

The gnarled trees are what show the harshness of the tortured landscape. — Anthony T. Hincks

 

It’s the little things that citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. — Wangari Maathai

 

The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves. — Wangari Maathai

 

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. — Dr. Seuss

 

The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy. — Shannon L. Alder

 

An English wood is like a good many other things in life– very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be–what they once were, before our ancestors’ descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days. (“The Striding Place”) ― Gertrude Atherton, The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories

 

We are living on the planet as if we have another one to go to. — Terry Swearingen

 

The world is dark and quiet, except for the soft rustling of leaves and the cry of a a wolf in the distance. ― Jen Calonita

 

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. — Robert Swan

 

Also read these mindfulness lake quotes that will bring your life peace. Come to the woods, for here is rest. — John Muir

 

Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence. — Sabrina Elkins

 

When you save the life of a tree, you only pay your debt as we all owe our lives to the trees! Mehmet Murat ildan

 

If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before! Amit Ray

 

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

 

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. — Henry David Thoreau

 

When you save the life of a tree, you only pay your debt as we all owe our lives to the trees! Mehmet Murat ildan

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. — Henry David Thoreau

 

If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

The forest has shrunk
And fear has expanded,
The forests have dwindled,
There are less animals now,
less courage and less lightning,
less beauty
and the moon lies bare,
deflowered by force and
then abandoned. ― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

 

Inspiring quotes on forest, nature and environment