Tree Quotes · Page 16

What I do is my business, go bark up someone else's tree.

— Anonymous

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

— Jim Rohn

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

— Robert Jordan

“I am a tree, though I’m not a shady character. I’m like a tree in winter.”

— Jarod Kintz

Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree.

— Jane Powell

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

— Shel Silverstein

“A tree is naked, no matter how big, if it does not have leaves.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Come with me to howling tree?" "What?" "Howling tree. It's a place a found. Come on”

— Debbie Moon

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

— Martin Luther King, Jr

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

— Billie Letts

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

— Jane Swisshelm

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy…

— Phillips Brooks

In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…

— Jared Diamond

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows…

— Eric Burdon

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily…

— Heinrich Heine

When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in…

— Henry Ford

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With…

— Jack Kornfield

Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow…

— Henry David Thoreau

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They…

— Hermann Hesse

The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech…

— William Cowper

I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer,…

— Nancy Garden

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: that Scotland has so few trees.”

— Lydia Davis

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

— George Berkeley

My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

— Ogden Nash

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

— Michael Pollan

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

— Maya Angelou

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

— Anthony Burgess

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

— Moon Unit Zappa

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

— Elizabeth George Speare

“A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.”

— Anthony Liccione

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

— Stephen Girard

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Yeah, but it could roll!

— Anonymous