If there’s one place we go above all others when we need to relax it’s the forest. You could say we were lovers of forest bathing before that was even a thing!
Walking between old trees is almost meditative and something we try to do at least once a week. It’s pretty much the antidote to stress, and we always come out happier than we went in. It seems lots of people feel the same because our photos from Sequoia National Park are always our most popular on social media!
Here are the most inspirational quotes about forests to make you smile or provide a caption for your Instagram pics.
The most Inspirational Forest Quotes
“Finland is officially the world’s happiest country. It is also 75 per cent forest. I believe these facts are related.”
- Matt Haig
"I found far more answers in the woods than I ever did in the city."
- Mary Davis
“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.”
- John Muir
“The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.“
- Kay Johnson
“Gold is a luxury. Trees are necessities. Man can live and thrive without gold, but we cannot survive without trees.”
- Paul Bamikole
“A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
- Hal Borland
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.”
- Evaristo Nugkuag
“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”
- John Fowles
“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.”
- John Muir
“A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.”
- David Douglas
“Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence.”
- Sabrina Elkins
“The sacred place of silent minds and deep souls is the depths of the forest!”
- Mehmet Murat İldan
“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 emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. “
- Napoleon Hill
"My roots are in the depths of the woods."
- Galle
“If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests!”
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
- John Muir
“Forests were the first temples of the divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.”
- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”
- Alan Watts
“The trees will tell their secrets to those that tune in.”
- Steven Magee
“An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.”
- Bill Mollison
"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
- John Fowles
“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.”
- Chris Maser
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
- John Muir
“Trees are always a relief, after people.”
- David Mitchell
“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
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
- George Washington Carver
“Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.”
- Hugo Weaving
“Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.”
- Rumi
“Going to the woods is going home.”
- John Muir
“Forest is the best port of the wise man!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“The forests are the lungs of the world”
- Woody Harrelson
“I’m always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.”
- Gunter Grass
“Anywhere which is in a forest, that’s my zen place.”
- Raveena Tandon
“An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.”
- Wayne W. Dyer
“I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.”
- Fahadh Faasil
“And the forest perfume — trees and earth — it’s like incense in a shrine. You fall into a state of… prayer.”
- Keiichi Sigsawa
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
- Helen Keller
“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I find my soul in forests”
– Kedar dhepe
“If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.”
- Eckhart Tolle
”There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.”
- Katelyn S. Bolds
“When we walk into a grove of trees or under an open sky the magic of nature takes over and the heaviness of life lifts a little.”
- Natassia Cassinero
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Deep down, at the molecular heart of life, the trees, and we are essentially identical.”
– Carl Sagan
“The groves were God’s first temples.”
- William Cullen Bryant
“The forest is a pillow for a wanderer.”
- Matshona Dhliwayo
“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.”
- Josephine Winslow Johnson
“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”
- Katrina Mayer
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
- John Lubbock
"Not just beautiful, though - the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me."
- Haruki Murakami
“It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.”
- Riccardo Bozzi
“Some of the best advice you will ever hear will come from the forest.”
- Dacha Avelin
“By walking on a snowy forest, you can really forget about this world and every time you forget about this world you leave this world and every time you leave this world you gain a very special wisdom that does not exist in this world!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“All forests have their own personality.”
- Charles de Lint
“When you go into a forest, anything can happen.”
- David Farr
“Need a sense of peace and relaxation, take a walk through the forest.”
- Byron Pulsifer
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
- Washington Irving
“You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!”
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism.”
- Sir David Attenborough
“Nature gives us beauty of the flowers in the summer, but the fall brings out the beauty of the trees and the entire forest.”
- Catherine Pulsifer
“When you are lost in the wilderness, a tree will always point you in the right direction.”
- Anthony T. Hincks
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”
- Hermann Hesse
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We need to protect our forests to protect all of life.”
- Samantha Lynch
“We can learn a lot from the forests, regrowth, change and beauty.”
-Catherine Pulsifer
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
- Shira Tamir
“Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.”
- Courtney M. Privett
“If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!”
- Amit Ray
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
- Rachel Carson
“Observe the beauty of forest.”
- Lailah Gifty Akita
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
- Nelson Henderson
"The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united peaceful world."
- Enos A. Mills
“Dreams appear as seeds that when planted, must become a forest reserve.”
- Israelmore Ayivor
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Kahlil Gibran
"To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination."
- Joan Maloof
"The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself.”
- Richard Nelson
“I love walking in the woods, along the trails, by the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one’s batteries.”
- Grace Kelly
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
- Gary Snyder
“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
- Henry van Dyke
"The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings.”
- Buddhist Sutra
“All forests are one… They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.”
- Charles de Lint
“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”
- Orison Swett Marden
“A forest is a living thing like a human body…each part dependent on all the other parts.”
- Louis L’Amour
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”
- Aristotle
“A walk in nature, walks the soul back home.”
- Mary Davis
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
- Robert Frost
“The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.”
- Ellen Burns Sherman
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
- Khalil Gibran
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
- John Muir
“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
– John Muir
"Leave the roads; take the trails."
- Pythagoras
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery- air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy."
- Sylvia Plath
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
- Alice Walker
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong”
- Winston Churchill
