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Susan Fenimore Cooper Quotes

What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and

What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

Susan Fenimore Cooper
Gratitude, Fall, Men
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.202

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

Susan Fenimore Cooper
Life And Death, Peculiar, Mastery
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Susan Fenimore Cooper
Spring, Tree, Earth
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.203

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