There is something about a forest in its living, breathing oneness that gives it an aura of actual sentience.
Its as if you, an intruder, have entered the woodland’s domain to hunt for its secrets to having survived for so many centuries. The forest knows you are there and offers you no help in making your way. A thousand hidden eyes observe your movements; thousands of keen nostrils read your scent. A consensus must be formed. Friend or foe are you? Will we guide you or let you be lost?
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.”
We must not always talk in the market–place of what happens to us in the forest.”
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”