Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Susan Fenimore Cooper

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Susan Fenimore Cooper.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Susan Fenimore Cooper

Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, New York and made it a successful charity. The daughter of writer James Fenimore Cooper, she served as his secretary and amanuensis late in his life.

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