Tree Quotes · Page 35

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

— Ronald Reagan

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

— Erica Jong

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon

— Matsuo Basho

“If they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?”

— Jesus of Nazareth -- Book of Luke

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

— George Herbert

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Enlightenment or Evolution leaves no shade under the tree.”

— johnjwillard

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry…

— John Lasseter

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

— Robert H. Schuller

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That…

— Jim Rohn

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more…

— Pope Francis

In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to…

— Matt LeBlanc

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the…

— Kathleen Raine

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may…

— Richard Blumenthal

Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings.…

— John Ruskin

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a…

— Andy Rooney

Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit…

— Albert Schweitzer

Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen…

— Chris Young

In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms…

— Anandamayi Ma

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see…

— Martha Graham

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

— Anonymous

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

— Woody Harrelson

I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

— Davey Havok

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

— Marc Bolan

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

— Mary Oliver

I cannot tell you what hotel I'm staying at, but there are two trees involved.

— Mitch Hedberg

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

— Anonymous

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

— Hannah More

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

— Warren Buffett

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

— Douglas Coupland

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

— Henry David Thoreau

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

— Neil Young

“You don't judge a tree by the name it Wears, you judge a tree by the fruit it Bears.”

— RVM

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

— Margaret Atwood

Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.

— Paul Brown