Tree Quotes

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

You are my koala bear, and I am your tree.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Trees are your best antiques

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.