“Paper is the most common form of waste. Much of it can be recycled, but that still means more energy has to be used to process it. Using less paper means saving energy, trees, water, and the chemicals needed in the manufacturing process. Trees are important because they prevent erosion and they abso…”— Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, amazon.com
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“'crown shyness' - phenomenon whereby individual tree crowns avoid overlap or touch, forming striking canopy patterns.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“A well-kempt forest begs Our Lady's grace; Someone is not disgusted, or at least Is laying bets upon the human race Retaining enough decency to last; The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about a country's soul.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“Two trunks like bodies, bodies like twined trunks . . . . Truly each other’s, they have embraced so long Their barks have met and wedded in one flow".”— Thom Gunn, amazon.com
“The son went to his dad and asked him, "Dad, what's an alcoholic?" So the dad replied, "Do you see those four trees? Well, an alcoholic would see eight." The son replied, "But Dad, I only see two."”— ck_9900, reddit.com
“If you want to catch a squirrel, just climb a tree and act like a nut.”— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“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
“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”— Jeffrey MCDaniel, goodreads.com
“Even five minutes around trees or in green spaces may improve health. Think of it as a prescription with no negative side effects that's also free.”— NYS State: Department of Environmental Conservation, dec.ny.gov
“I couldn’t live where there were no trees — something vital in me would starve.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“ho wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.”— Caryll Houselander, amazon.com
“Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.”— Beth Kephart, amazon.com