Tree Quotes

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me

Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom)

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.