"You compare one little tree to the entire forest."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"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

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

"Trees're always a relief, after people."
— David Mitchell (Black Swan Green: A Novel)

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them."
— Bill Vaughan

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."
— Thomas Hardy (Under the Greenwood Tree)

"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

"To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy."
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes (The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die)

"There’s nothing that keeps it’s youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth

"
— Ogden Nash

"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?"
— Ronald Reagan

"Wilderness is a place where trees grow that were not planted, and a man can walk and he is not trespassing."
— Frances Zaunmiller

"We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours."
— Marcel Proust

"Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come."
— Karen Joy Fowler (Sarah Canary)

" Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies)

"“Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth”

"
— Rolf Peterson, professor of Ecology

"Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togetherness, while
separately we stand.
As two trees deeply rooted in
separate plots of ground,
While their topmost branches
come together,
Forming a miracle of lace
against the heavens."
— Janet Mills (The Power of a Woman: Timeless Thoughts on a Woman's Inner Strengths)

"Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.


From,The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine

"Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

From, The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine