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Trees Quotes
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. (Quote by - William Manchester)
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. (Quote by - James G. Watt)
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
If it was christmas everyday we'd be cutting down too many trees. (Quote by - Tony Follari)
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth (Quote by - John Ford)
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. (Quote by - Charles Godfrey Leland)
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The best part of happiness is the pines. (Quote by - The Quote Garden)
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. (Quote by - William Bliss Carman)
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
It is not in fighting that my God delights but in causing the trees to grow, and in adorning the plains with grass and flowers. He loves not the proud warrior nor the hunter, but the lowly and the good (Quote by - Standish O'Grady)
The shad-bush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens; the new leaved butternut And quivering poplar to the roving breeze Gave a balsamic fragrance. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. (Quote by - John Muir)