Tree Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

And the tree was happy

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

"One impulse from a vernal wood

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

What do you say to a guy that says a tree's sexy.

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?