IDEAS & IMAGES ABOUT BEAUTIFUL FORESTS NOW

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

-- John Muir

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy.

-- Gunter Grass

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.  

-- Theodore Roosevelt  

A forest bird never wants a cage.

-- Henrik Ibsen

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

--  Ralph Waldo Emerson  

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

-- Anselm Kiefer

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

-- Anna Freud

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

-- George Washington Carver  

Going to the woods is going home.

-- John Muir

Read more about Beautiful Forests, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including Explore the Beauty of Forests in 10 Gorgeous New Books Now, Mysterious Basque Forests are so Beautiful, Now!, Love & Eat the Forest Now!, and Experience the Forest as Art Now, and 10 Beautiful Forests to Consider Now.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Cristiano Oliveira. Novelty.
2. Image: by Province of British Columbia. Douglas Fir. Cathedral Grove. Vancouver, British Columbia.
3. Image: by Jenny Lee Silver. Cathedral Grove. Vancouver, British Columbia.
4. Image: by Michael Balint. Redwoods. Humboldt Redwoods State Park. California, United States.
5. Image: by thejaan. Magpie, Bosque seco (dry forest). Horizontes. Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
6. Image: by JFXie. Simplicity and Bamboo Forests. Hubei, China.
7. Image: by InAweofGod'sCreation. The Fall of Acadia. Maine, United States.
8. Image: by Mariano Mantel. Bosque de Eucalyptus. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
9. Image: by ninara. Karura Forest. Nairobi, Kenya. Eucalyptus tree.
10. Image: by Kristine Paulus. Betula papyrifera (paper birch).
11. Image: by Charles de Mille-Isles. Tylopilus chromapes / Bolet à pied jaune vif.
12. Image: by Sang Trinh. Cathedral Grove. Vancouver, British Columbia.
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Gregg Koep, of Vancover Island Big Trees. Grand Fir Trail. Francis/King Regional Park.