Trees Quotes
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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)
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. (Quote by - Joyce Kilmer)
Trees are your best antiques. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
The trees are whispering to me, reminding me of my roots, and my reach... shhhhhh... can you hear them? Selflessly sharing their subtle song. (Quote by - Jeb Dickerson)
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? (Quote by - Alice Walker)
The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire. (Quote by - Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill)
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. (Quote by - Harriet Tubman)
Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. (Quote by - Bible)
The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. (Quote by - J.J. Furnas)
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. (Quote by - Bill Vaughn)
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (Quote by - J. Lubbock)
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. (Quote by - Maria Brooks)
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. (Quote by - Elizabeth Russell)
Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. (Quote by - Forsyth and Rada)
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. (Quote by - Bible)
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. (Quote by - Jack Handey)
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. (Quote by - American Proverb)
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. (Quote by - Minnie Aumonier)
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
Breeze is the conductor, trees the musicians, leaves the instruments. (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? (Quote by - Frank N. Ikard)
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. (Quote by - Wilson Flagg)
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. (Quote by - John Muir)
Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn't eat much and doesn't read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms. (Quote by - Norman Fitzroy Maclean)
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. (Quote by - Stephen Girard)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much. (Quote by - John Muir)
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Some boundless contiguity of shade. (Quote by - William Cowper)
You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. (Quote by - David Everett)
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. (Quote by - John Muir)
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. (Quote by - Bible)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. (Quote by - Nelson Henderson)
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Quote by - Moliere)
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. (Quote by - Osho)
Plant no other tree before the vine. (Quote by - Horace)
This is the forest primeval. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man. (Quote by - Joyce Kilmer)
Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree! (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. (Quote by - Horizon)
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! (Quote by - John Muir)
There are rich counsels in the trees. (Quote by - Herbert P. Horne)
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees (Quote by - Edward Young)
People just looked lost. Too many players looked like fish on trees. (Quote by - Paul Merson)
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees. (Quote by - Irish McCalla)
Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. (Quote by - Sara Ebenreck)
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
To her bier comes the year, not with weeping and distress, as mortals do; but to guide her way to it, all the trees have torches lit (Quote by - Lucy Larcom)
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. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
Alaska would be an idea place for a golf course - mighty few trees and damn few ladies' foursomes. (Quote by - Rex Lardner)
As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. (Quote by - Karl Baker)
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. (Quote by - Welsh Proverb)
It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it falls and die that night-- It was the plant and flower of Light. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. (Quote by - William Blake)
There's so many celebrities on this grid, I can hardly see the wood for the trees. (Quote by - Martin Brundle)
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. (Quote by - David Letterman)
I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees... putting on make-up when you're up there! (Quote by - Eddie Izzard)
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. (Quote by - Cree Indian Proverb)
We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. (Quote by - Everett Mámor)
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. (Quote by - Jens Jensen)
