Tree Quotes

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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

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

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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

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

Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Man is nature as much as the trees.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Cause not a tree to die.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.