Tree Quotes

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.