“When 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 doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?”
–   Seneca  

 “Going to the woods is going home.”

-John Muir  

“My roots are in the depths of the woods.”   
–   Galle  

To me, nature is sacred;  trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.”
–   Mikhail Gorbachev