Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

- Gregory Bateson

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

- John Lothrop Motley

Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

- Jeff Goodell

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

- John James Audubon

When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.

- Joel A. Barker

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

- James Lovelock

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

- John Muir

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

- Greg Walden

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

- Greg Walden

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

- George M. Church

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

- Alex Shoumatoff

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

Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

- Frances Beinecke

I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

- Enric Sala

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

- Ed Rendell

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

- E. O. Wilson

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

- Daphne Zuniga

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

- Donella Meadows

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

- Bruce Babbitt

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

- Alice Morse Earle