[Sounds educational and fun, he'll take notes and everything!]

That's a relief. I was starting to lose track of time too, so thanks for snapping me out of it. [He chuckles sheepishly, realizing now that the position of the trees' shadings looked quite different from when he first stepped into these woods.] I know the signs are all telling us to just reach the end, but with a forest this lush, it feels like it'd be a waste to not learn more about it.