Roger Caras

Roger Caras is the author of over 40 books on nature and the environment. He has been a correspondent and natural history commentator on radio and TV.

All things on earth are infinite. All the needles in all the coniferous forests are measurable. If they seem without bounds, it is our inability to comprehend them that is at fault. The Forest, 1979.

Lichens are among the least dramatic and most important life-forms on earth. They are the only plants that can grow on otherwise barren rocks and are, in fact, one of the principle means by which rocks are decayed and turned into soil. (Many scientists today place lichens and fungi in a kingdom of their own, no longer calling them plants at all.) Ibid.

Man is not careful with his treasures. He has always wasted, has always thrown away as much or more than he has kept. Ibid.

Everything that comes to the forest adds to it and is added to, made more whole, more complex because of the life that stirs there in one grand mix. Ibid.

I shall continue to go to the forests and walk in them and listen and fill myself with their greatness and quiet. Ibid.