Tree Quotes

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

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.

I never saw a discontented tree.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.