Oliwa forests are forests located in Gdańsk.
The total area is 60 km².
The forests belonged to the monastery in Oliwa since 1188. Just after First Partition of Poland, on November 1, 1772, King of Prussia took over the forests.
Famous quotes containing the word forests:
“The civilized nations—Greece, Rome, England—have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)