“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”

“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”

“The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the pine trees.”

“it's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood”

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.”

“Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have been twisted in the same way. It's as though every tree has made up its own mind exactly how it wants to grow.”