Tree Quotes

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

He's as old as some trees.

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You are a very nice maple tree.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

The tree is known by his fruit.

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all.

There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard.

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.