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“The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.”
― Bernd Heinrich, The Trees in My Forest

“Love is like encountering a forest and having to chop down every tree but one. Oh, and you have to chop down each tree by hugging it until it falls.â€�”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe.

She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the sun?

It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognise her as the garden did. ("The Pool")”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

“Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.”
― Bernd Heinrich, The Trees in My Forest

“If you wanna better understand capital productivity, study trees. They can turn a bare plot of earth into massive amounts of materials consistently and endlessly.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every forest is a classroom where we can go to learn business and economics.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The value we provide at Mayflower-Plymouth exists at the convergence of various technologies and studies including Blockchain, cryptography, quantum computing, permaculture design principles, artificial intelligence, stigmergy, forestry, economics, additive manufacturing, big data, advanced logistics and more.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Anyone who has a garden, park or orchard tree has an opportunity to ensure that it offers protection, brings beauty and bears fruit for future generations. In short, every one of us should aspire to be a forester.”
― Gabriel Hemery, The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century

“Observe the beauty of forest.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on
extinction-not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion-until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying it makes a living land into "natural resources." If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“In forests, there are an abundance of products and an abundance of services... and an abundance of service providers, producers and consumers. In essence, every forest is like a robust economy with a lot of profitable businesses and a lot of happy customers.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United States had begun to set aside forest reserves to protect the trees. Then, while Aldo was in high school, one of the country’s first forestry schools opened at Yale University. Aldo knew immediately what he wanted to do. If he could become a forester, he could get paid to work in the woods all day. How could a job get any better?”
― Marybeth Lorbiecki, Things, Natural, Wild, and Free: The Life of Aldo Leapold

“I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!”
― Steven Magee

“Life here in this part of Maine is almost inconceivable without wood, and woods. We burn it for heat. Some cut it for a living. Many earn their livelihood from it by making paper, if not toboggans, snowshoes, apple boxes, or canoes. But it all comes from trees. Trees are our lifeblood, in more ways that one. And that is the problem. There are woods, and there is wood, and the two have different uses.”
― Bernd Heinrich, A Year in the Maine Woods

“Americans seem to want the product, at the cheapest possible price, while objecting loudly to its harvest.”
― William Dietrich

“When you plant a tree, you bring nature a step closer to your home.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“When we defend the forests, we guard the lungs of tomorrow; when we preserve the waters, we safeguard the lifeblood of the Earth.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the forest world, stable and consistent.”
― Peter Quinby, Ontario's Old Growth Forests

“That wood," he said, pointing back to the pinewood on the mound, "is used for any building that goes on here. So is the one right over there; it is beech, elm and oak. We never buy a plank of timber here. And we never cut down a tree unless it is necessary. And whatever tree is cut down, is always replaced by a sapling of the same kind. That is another of our traditions. The result is that our woods never grow less. Even in the last war, when so much had to be cut for the Government, we replanted as fast as we cut down. I have a forestry man in charge, and we pride ourselves on our beautiful timber.”
― Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, The Lost Staircase

“In the beginning I gave you paper for books, fruits for food, roots, bark and leaves for medicine, and I gave you shelter from the scorching sun and fierce rainfall, but now you cut me down for parts and set me on fire without remorse.”
― Paul Bamikole

“Large-scale reforestation of the Scottish hills and uplands through natural regeneration offers a tantalising prospect in terms of recovering our lost biodiversity, balancing our carbon budget and, I would argue, an opportunity to reinvigorate the economy of remoter rural areas. All that stands in the way are medieval laws designed centuries ago to prevent poaching and exclude people, and a forestry sector that follows, blindly, the corporate industrial forestry model.”
― Douglas Macmillan, Reforesting Scotland 66, Autumn/Winter 2022

“Cut down no trees, for they are home to the birds you adore.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“One... misconception is the idea that England is now mostly concreted over. Coupled to this is the idea that the onward march of bricks and mortar is the main cause of declining species and habitats. Neither assertion is true. Just 8.8 per cent of England is built on; 73 per cent is farmland, and 10 per cent is forestry. The biggest drivers of biodiversity loss in this country are modern agriculture, forestry and shooting. ...the greatest threat to the countryside comes from within it.”
― Guy Shrubsole, The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?