#forestquotes

If you should walk and wind and wander far enough on one of those afternoons in April when smoke goes down instead of up, and nearby things sound far away and far things near, you are more than likely to come at last to the enchanted forest that lies between the Moonstone Mines and Centaurs Mountain. You'll know the woods when you are still a long way off by virtue of a fragrance you can never quite forget and never quite remember. — James Thurber

“Once Upon a time,' the stories would begin ... no particular time, fictional time, fairy-story time. This is a doorway; if you are lucky, you go through it as a child, aurally, before you can read, and if you are very lucky, you become a free citizen of an ancient republic and can come and go as you please.” * “Forests to the [early] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out of which fairy stories, one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, evolved. The mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forest are both the background to and source of these tales.... Forests are places where a person can get lost and also hide -- and losing and hiding, of things and people, are central to European fairy stories in ways that are not true of similar stories in different geographies. Landscape informs the collective imagination as much as or more than it forms the individual psyche and its imagination, but this dimension is not something to which we always pay enough attention." * "I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological diversity, their secret gifts and perils and the knowledge that you have to go through them to get anywhere else, created the themes and ethics of the fairy tales we know best. There are secrets, hidden identities, cunning disguises; there are rhythms of change like the changes of the seasons; there are characters, both human and animal, whose assistance can be earned or spurned; and there is -- over and over again -- the journey or quest, which leads first to knowledge and then to happiness. The forest is the place of trial in fairy stories, both dangerous and exciting. Coming to terms with the forest, surviving its terrors, utilising its gifts and gaining its help is the way to 'happy ever after.” * ― Sara Maitland, Gossip from the Forest

“The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark; The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are. Do not lose your way, dearie, Do not lose your way; The monsters are lurking not far from the path should you stray. Things aren’t what they seem, dearie, Things aren’t what they seem; Kind grins are bared teeth; Please don’t answer the calls from the trees. Do not pay them heed, dearie, Do not pay them heed; Hear footsteps behind you, beware but don’t fret, they’re just checking. The air is alive, dearie, The air is alive; To help and to hinder, but it’s how some learned to survive. These woods are too old, dearie, These woods are too old; Watch for crimson wraiths, keep your strength and wits close should you go. Deep in the Forest.” - Emory R. Frie

― Algernon Blackwood, Monster Mix

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir From Caryatides trail, Mount Parnonas. #parnonas #greece #exploregreece #forestquotes #forestquotes #trekkinglove #trekking #treebark #treetrunks #treephotography #treespirit #tree_magic (at Mount Parnonas Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYlVl69oEqb/?utm_medium=tumblr

"𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑰 𝒈𝒐, 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍." 𝑱.𝑴𝒖𝒊𝒓 🌳 . Little reminder for us all to spend more time in Nature. Grounding and uplifting, calming and invigorating, soothing and recharging. . What we give we get back, in some form or another, sooner or later 💚 . Treat the Earth with love and compassion, SHOP RESPONSIBLY 🙏 . @thekoalacollective = planting 1x 🌳 for each purchase, together with @onetreeplanted 😊 . . . #thekoalacollective #onetreeplanted #forestquotes #sustainableshopping #johnmuir #forestlove (at Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/COAUyeYHqqS/?igshid=1qkgx7ib86gsk

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." ~John Muir 🌳 #arrowheadnecklace #forestquotes