Tree Quotes

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.

In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.