Tree Quotes

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

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

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

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.

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

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.

"One impulse from a vernal wood

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

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.