Tree Quotes

The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

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.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

You can't run away from yourself

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

I love a tree more than a man.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.