Tree Quotes · Page 65

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

— Robert Burns

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

— John Muir

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you…

— Colin Wilson

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

— Countee Cullen

An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways,…

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

— Anne Sexton

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to…

— John Muir

so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I…

— Kelley Armstrong

They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency…

— Anonymous

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and…

— Ernest Hemingway

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message,…

— Isak Dinesen

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…

— Diane Ackerman

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade…

— Robert Sobukwe

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

— Wendell Berry

They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree.…

— Anonymous

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating…

— Edie Falco

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have…

— Cynthia Hand

Coppice management depends upon the chosen tree being cut when the shoots are straight, vigorous and, critically, not shading out new growth.

— Monty Don

A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in…

— Tom Paxton

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and…

— Vance Havner

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

— Gautama Buddha

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I…

— Edward Ruscha

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite…

— Annie Dillard

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath…

— Ernest L. Boyer

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits…

— William Blake

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

— Faith Baldwin

Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in…

— Maud Lindsay

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

— Matthew McConaughey

“I wonder how often I ended up on the short-end of the stick because I was climbing the wrong tree.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

— Thomas Merton

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and…

— Freeman Dyson

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close,…

— John Muir

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

— Henry S. F. Cooper

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are…

— Paulo Coelho