Tree Quotes

The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

The rigid tree will be felled.

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

I recently went for a walk in a state park and found that some of my favorite trees had collapsed. It makes me feel vulnerable, personally and for my children.

And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.

You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

Those who plant trees plant hope.

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.