I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

— Dr. Seuss

“My love for her is so great, that if all the leaves on all the trees were tongues, they could not declare it.”

— Brothers Grimm

I speak for the trees!

— Dr. Seuss

“Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of…

— Maryrose Wood

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

— William Shakespeare

“This tree must be falling for me, as soon as I sat under it, it dropped its leaves. Oh sweet October!”

— Charmaine J Forde

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms,…

— Sharyn McCrumb

“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.”

— Lemony Snicket

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started…

— Fred Durst