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These quotes and facts can be included in presentations\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEach generation takes the earth as trustees.\u00a0 We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.\u201d \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 J. Sterling Morton<\/p>\n

\u201cThe forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness,\u00a0nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself.\u00a0 Nature\u00a0is not merely created by God, nature\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>God.\u00a0 Whoever moves within the\u00a0forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with\u00a0his entire body, breath sacredness and contain it within himself, drink\u00a0the sacred water as a living communion, bury his feet in sacredness,\u00a0open his eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness.\u201d <\/em>\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Nelson<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.\u201d \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 John Muir<\/p>\n

\u201cThe forests are the flags of nature. \u00a0 They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings.\u00a0 Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten.\u00a0 It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united peaceful world.\u201d \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Enos A. Mills<\/p>\n

\u201cI frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.\u201d \u2013\u00a0 Henry David Thoreau,\u00a0 1817 \u2013 1862<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Seneca<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be\u00a0static things.\u00a0 In physical terms, I move through them; yet in\u00a0metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 John Fowles<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll life is figured by them as a Tree.\u00a0 Igdrasil, the Ash-tree of existence, has its roots deep-down in the kingdoms of Death: its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe:\u00a0it is the Tree of Existence.\u00a0 At the foot of it, in the Death-Kingdom, sit the three Fates \u2013 the Past, Present and Future; watering its roots from the Sacred Well.\u00a0 It\u2019s \u201cbough,\u201d with their buddings and disleafings, \u2013 events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, \u2013 stretch through all lands and times.\u00a0 Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fiber there an act or word?\u00a0 Its boughs are the Histories of Nations.\u00a0 The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onwards from of old.\u00a0 \u2026.\u00a0 I find no
\nsimilitude so true as this of a Tree.\u00a0 Beautiful; altogether beautiful and great.\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0 Thomas Carlyle<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 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.
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Buddhist Sutra<\/p>\n

\u201cThe forests are dying, the rivers are dying, and we are called to act.\u00a0 To return Earth to harmony is to restore the harmonious principles within ourselves and to act as responsible caretakers \u2013 to save the forests and the waters for future generations.\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Dhyani Ywahoo<\/p>\n

\u201cTrees can reduce the heat of a summer\u2019s day, quiet a highway\u2019s noise, feed the hungry, provide shelter from the wind and warmth in the winter.\u00a0 You see, the forests are the sanctuaries not only of wildlife, but also of the human spirit.\u00a0 And every tree is a compact between generations.\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 George Bush, U.S. President, 1989<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat 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.\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0 Gandhi<\/p>\n

\u201cInvest in the millennium.\u00a0 Plant sequoias.
\nSay that your main crop is the forest
\nthat you did not plant,
\nthat you will not live to harvest.
\nSay that the leaves are harvested
\nwhen they have rotted into the mold.
\nCall that profit. \u00a0 Prophesy such returns.
\nPut your faith in the two inches of humus
\nthat will build under the trees
\nevery thousand years.\u201d
\n\u2013 \u00a0\u00a0 Wendell Berry,\u00a0Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFour hundred year old trees,
\nwho draw aliveness from the earth
\nlike smoke from the heart of God,
\nwe come, not knowing
\nyou will hush our little want
\nto be big;<\/p>\n

we come, not knowing
\nthat all the work is so much
\nbusyness of mind; all
\nthe worry, so much
\nbusyness of heart.<\/p>\n

As the sun warms anything near,
\nbeing warms everything still
\nand the great still things
\nthat outlast us<\/p>\n

make us crack
\nlike leaves of laurel
\nreleasing a fragrance
\nthat has always been.\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Nepo,\u00a0In Muir Woods\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the books in your hands,
\nthe sturdy chairs on your floors,
\nthe upright walls of your houses,
\nthe strong slanted roofs protecting your heads,
\nthe holders of food during your meals,
\nthe coffins for your rotting flesh,
\nthe doors to your worlds,
\nthe tissues cleaning the crap off your arses,
\nthe boats for your fishers of men,
\nthe forests on your Mother Earth,
\nthe heat in your hearth,
\nthe Sacred Rattles of the Winds,
\nthe cooling shade for your summers,
\nthe handles of your tools of life and death.<\/p>\n

We are the Ancient Green Ones,
\nYggdrasil, Ashvattha, Etz Chaim,
\nArbotvitae, Axis Mundi of Many Names;
\nTen Thousand Forms yet One of Kind,
\nthe oldest living beings,
\nthe largest and tallest living beings.
\nYes, the Givers of the fruits and nuts in your hands.
\nYes, the Givers of the air that you breathe.
\nYes, the Trees, the Trees, the Trees!\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0 Mike Garofalo,\u00a0Above the Fog<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Forest Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.americanforests.org\/explore-forests\/forest-facts\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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