Tree Quotes

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.