Tree Quotes
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.
A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.
The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.
Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
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.
Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.
Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.