Tree Quotes

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning.

Without trees, mountains, fogs or rains, the Sun cannot create its own magic!

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

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 willow tree plays the water like a harp.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.

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.

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.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.