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STILL TIME TO CHILL IN THE FOREST

Novelty by Cristiano Oliveira.

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

-- John Muir

Path winds through tall Douglas fir trees in Vancouver, British Colummbia.

“I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy.”

-- Gunter Grass

Moss grows on the trunks of tall trees in Vancouver, British Columbia.

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Tall redwoods grow in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. California.

“A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.”  

-- Theodore Roosevelt  

Beautiful magpie bird perches in tree in forest in Costa Rica.

“A forest bird never wants a cage.”

-- Henrik Ibsen

Tall grove of bamboo trees in China.

“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”

--  Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Thicket of birch trees grows in woods at Acadia, Maine.

“I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.”

-- Anselm Kiefer

Eucalyptus trees line the side of a road in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.”

-- Anna Freud

Tall eucalyptus tree grows in Karura Forest, outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

-- George Washington Carver  

Closeup view of trunk of paper birch tree.

“Going to the woods is going home.”

-- John Muir

Big orange wild mushroom grows out of a pile of dead leaves in the forest.

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Sun shines through the trees in the woods at Cathedral Grove in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Woman in red cap walks through birch trees in forest.
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