“A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.”

“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”

“No man is an island — although one’s known a surprising number who own one.”

“If you fell the trees then you destroy human culture as well as the birds of paradise. People depend on the forest and the forest has always depended on us. We are as one.”

“As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.”

“The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into…

A monkey?

I think not.”

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”

“A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.”

“Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.”