Tree Quotes

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper

People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?

They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.