Tree Quotes

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

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

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

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

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.

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

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

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

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

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

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

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."

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

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?

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."