Tree Quotes

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

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

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

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.

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.

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.

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

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

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.

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?

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn.

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.