“Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in” GivingCountryAsksForeverTreeSkyLandPleaseLet MeGive MeWideFenceBreezeStarry Sky Author:Cole Porter
“The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.” ThinkingEndsAsksTreeJourneyFrontsObstaclesWoodsBarsPassagesCrashTempest Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.” WayNeedsGivingYearsMayValuesAsksTreeCostRiversForestsAtmosphereRight WayWrong WayOld Trees Author:Paul Hawken