Forest Quotes – 33 Sayings About Trees, Woods, Forest Conservation And Forest Dieback

Are you looking for inspiring Forest Quotes for forest protection? Then you've come to the right place! Forest dieback and the Deforestation - especially the clearing of rainforests - are among the greatest Environmental problems of our time. Trees give way to cropland for feed production and livestock grazing. Also for Palm oil we destroy the rainforest. This cannot go on. It is time to value the forest for what it is: the lungs of our earth.

Here you can now find effective sayings about forests, which you can use for forest protection and also in the campaign against forest dieback. Let's go!

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about forests have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

The Best Quotes About Forests And Forest Conservation

Whether walk or Forest bathing - i love being in the forest. The dense trees and bushes make me feel alone in the world for a while. The forest helps immensely to To switch off brain so properly, to recover mentally and to get back in better harmony with nature.

If you are not yet aware of how important forests and trees are for life on earth, you will develop awareness at the latest with the following quotes.

Forest Quotes #1-10

1. "To cut down a beautiful tree, it hardly takes half an hour. To grow until it is admired, it takes, consider it, a century!" (Eugen Roth)
2. "The breath of the trees gives us life." (Roswitha Bloch)
3. "In an area where forest violation does not occur, the forest has no value." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
4. "The trees, the shrubs, the plants are the ornament and the garment of the earth." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
5. "The forest is the hospital of our soul." (Hubert Maria Dietrich)
6. "The many trees and the few people - they make the forest so beautiful." (Otto White)
7. "Nothing is more image of the world and life for me than the tree. In front of him I would think every day, in front of him and about him..." (Christian Morgenstern)
8. "Peace can only be found in the woods." (Michelangelo)
9. "The forest is one of the best refueling stations where you can recharge your batteries." (Ernst Fertl)
10. "The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." (John Muir)

Forest Quotes #11-20

11. "Some people go through the forest seeing nothing else but firewood." (Leo Tolstoy)
12. "Trees are obviously more sensible than we are, always striving for the light." (Anke Maggauer-Kirsche)
13. "The parasite of the tree is man." (Monika Minder)
14. "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." (Unknown)
15. "It is in the still silence of nature where one will find true bliss." (J. J. C. Smart)
16. "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)
17. "There's a reason we turn to nature when we're looking to find ourselves." (Unknown)
18. "When you're standing all alone in the woods, it's very hard to understand what you're going to offices and movie theaters for. And suddenly you don't want all of that anymore." (Erich Kästner)
19. "Only in the forest everything came to rest in me, my soul became balanced and full of power." (Knut Hamsun)
20. "In the backwoods of nature's soul, I left my wild, true heart." (Angie Weiland-Crosby)

Forest Quotes #21-33

21. "The wood of the rainforests: for our coffins, it's enough." (Anke Maggauer-Kirsche)
22. "If we let the forest die, words lose their meaning." (Günther Grass)
23. "He who plants a tree, will win the sky." (Confucius)
24. "The tree does not have to want its fruits paid for. With those he pays himself." (Friedrich Hebbel)
25. "What is happening in the rainforest today is a predation, is a war." (Jose Lutzenberger)
26. "A tree is a miracle - the forest causes miracles." (Klaus Ender)
27. "Anything that is against nature will not last in the long run." (Charles Darwin)
28. "Only the lonely man finds the forest; where several seek him, he flees, and only the trees remain." (Peter Rosegger)
29. "For the sake of the caterpillar, you don't have to knock down the tree." (Proverb)
30. "Nothing is more beautiful than the beauty of the woods before sunrise." (George Washington Carver)
31. "In every tree dwells a spirit, and to interfere with its welfare burdens the site with misfortune." (Asian proverb)
32. "Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness." (Khalil Gibran)
33. "The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life." (Rabindranath Tagore)

Tip: Did you know that you can also do something for species conservation and our nature by making your garden a paradise? Learn more about this in the article about the sustainable gardening.

What is a forest?

A forest is a vegetation characterized by different trees with such a large area that a forest climate develops in the ecosystem.

Why are forests so important?

The trees in forests produce the air we breathe and provide shelter and food for both humans and countless animals. In addition, the forest habitat of countless plant species. It acts as a natural carbon store and also functions as a natural air conditioner. Furthermore, it gives peace and keeps both the air and the groundwater clean.

What is meant by a near-natural forest?

Near-natural forests are mixed forests in which only tree species grow that would also grow there naturally. In near-natural forests, harvestable trees are removed in isolated cases at most, while the forest is otherwise left to nature.

Sayings about forests, use trees for forest protection

Many people do not know how important the forest and its trees are for all living creatures on this earth - including us. It provides food and shelter in the fight against the species extinction and stores the CO₂that we humans blow into the atmosphere through our behavior. In addition, it offers us recreation and a cool shade. I hope that the forest quotes have inspired you even more to stand up for the protection of forests.

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