Tree Quotes

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

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.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.