Tree Quotes

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

Caddy smelled like trees.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.

Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree, ' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!

Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.

Caring a tree is caring of your soul.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

She blushed and I smiled when we saw the Magpie look at us while we kissed below the Acacia tree!

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.

God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those wonderful things he put in you out of you. When He begins, do not resist!

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

I’m planting a tree to teach me to make the world a better place.

I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kindhearted.