Tree Quotes

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Cause not a tree to die.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—

Marriage is what marriage is... It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Trees cause pollution.

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.