“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.” YearsLongThreeChristWonderfulTreeCenturyFoolThousandDiseaseWesternWoodsSavedForestsFloodThousand YearsTempestDroughtAvalanchesRedwoods Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.” PlayBeautifulActorsBlackLosesWalksActingWonderfulFrontsForestsLosing YourselfBackdropIbsen Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!” WorldFirstsCountryWonderfulMountainForestsAround The WorldTemplesPrettiest Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan