Cones nestling on the forest floor.

Araucaria Araucana Chilean Pine known as the Monkey Puzzle examples sometimes found in productive conifer woods.

Environmental Inspiration

We believe the natural environment plays a crucial part in the arts, infusing the senses and revealing the artist's or writer's relationship with their surroundings in every stroke and nuance.

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This page is dedicated to inspirational quotes about any aspect of the environment. From time to time we will post new quotes here, and we urge you to send us your favourites, whether literary or otherwise.

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Quotes

Forestry

"We should all plant trees, and never lose an opportunity. 'There's nothing more delightful you can do with a hole in the ground when you come on it than to pop an acorn in,' was a saying of my grandfather's. The forest is the proper garden for men like me; it needs no weeding."

Sir Andrew Schaw, from Fancy Farm by Neil Munro, 1910.

"In the forest, the stalks of bog rosemary and bilberry and flowering whortleberry, intertwined with shivering sedge grass threaded with raindrops like pearls, would trace embroidery patterns on the mossy ground. But these were meaningless. Some days, it was even impossible to discern a pattern."

Kerstin Ekman, The Forest of Hours, 1998.