Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

We are the living planet!

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Man must go back to nature for information.

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.