Tree Quotes

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.

But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.