Tree Quotes

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

In trees, I see expression and soul

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit...

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.