“There are more acres of forest land in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492.”— Rush Limbaugh, amazon.com
“Lucas: It could contaminate the water. Thor: We can throw it in the forest. Lucas: It's a sex drug. What if a fox eats it and tries to fuck a squirrel? It'll kill him!”— Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Beth Stelling, Thor, Brady Noon, imdb.com
“Rey: I know everything I need to know about you! Kylo Ren: You do? Ah, you do. You have that look in your eyes. From the forest. You called me a monster. Rey: You are a monster. Kylo Ren: Yes, I am.”— Rian Johnson, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com
“The forest, letting me walk amongst its naked limbs, had me on my knees again in silence shouting—yes, yes my holy friend, let your splendor devour me.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.com
“Through legends and artifacts we know that, throughout the planet, learners have needed, on occasion, to isolate themselves from others in order to gain special insights. Whether these periods of isolation took place in the forest, or in caves, whether they were the subject of great ritual, or just…”— David Thornburg, tcpd.org
“Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it... then my illegal log cutting business is doing well.”— JackApplebye, reddit.com
“Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love. To lose myself for a while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com