If you are after some of the most insightful sayings, proverbs, and quotes about the forest, you’re in the right place! 🌲
Below, I have found some wise, inspiring, appreciative, beautiful, and spiritual quotes about the forests] that show just how important they are to our survival.
Side note: If I have missed any iconic or famous quotes about the forest that you think should be included in this list, please share it down below and I will include it in! 😃
67+ Appreciative Quotes About The Forest!
1. “Nature is the art of God.” – Dante Alighieri
2. “Come to the woods, for here is rest.” – John Muir
3. “The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry
4. “This forest eats itself and lives forever.” – Barbara Kingsolver
5. “The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.” – Suzy Kassem
6. “The death of the forest is the end of our life.” – Dorothy Stang
7. “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” – Maxime Lagacé
8. “I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” – Dr. Seuss
9. “The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy.” – Shannon L. Alder
10. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “And into the forest, I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir
12. “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton
14. “An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” – Martin Buber
15. “These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.” – Samantha Hunt
Inspiring Quotes About The Forest
16. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
17. “A forest is a mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.” – Keith Miller
18. “We are living on the planet as if we have another one to go to.” – Terry Swearingen
19. “A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.” – David Douglas
20. “The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it.” – Ted Trueblood
21. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau
22. “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.” – A.A. Milne
23. “The forest talks but a good hunter only hear it by learning its language.” – Barry Babcock
24. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
25. “Humankind’s greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.” – Jonathon Porritt
26. “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27. “The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.” – Laurent Baheux
28. “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan
29. “Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans in this world.” – Munia Khan
30. “The gnarled trees are what show the harshness of the tortured landscape.” – Anthony T. Hincks
31. “Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” – George Eliot
32. “I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.” – Bindi Irwin
33. “Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.” – Courtney M. Privett
34. “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact a plan to protect man.” – Stewart Udall
35. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.” – E. O. Wilson
Famous Quotes About The Forest
36. “Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence.” – Sabrina Elkins
37. “If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.” – Daniel J. Rice
38. “Whenever we encounter wild animals in nature, we must only ever show kindness and compassion.” – Paul Oxton
39. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland
40. “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran
41. “If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.” – Susan George
42. “Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.” – Gregory Maguire
43. “It’s the little things that citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.” – Wangari Maathai
44. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.” – William Blake
45. “The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.” – Albert Einstein
46. “Deforestation is changing our climate, harming people, and the natural world. We must, and can, reverse this trend.” – Jane Goodall
47. “In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” – Paulo Coelho
48. “The mountains, the forest, and the sea render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” – Victor Hugo
Wise Quotes About The Forest
49. “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ills.” – John Muir
50. “The forest did not tolerate the frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.” – Tahir Shah
51. “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
52. “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.” – Mahatma Gandhi
53. “If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.” – Dan Groat
54. “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
55. “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.
56. “Forests were the first temples of the divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.” – Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
57. “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
58. “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
59. “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
60. “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
61. “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
62. “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
63. “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
64. “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
65. “The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.” – Napoleon Hill
66. “Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. A man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.” – Charles Baudelaire