Tree Quotes · Page 39

Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.

— Lewis Grizzard

“Nice tree," he says. That boy has unexpected depth.”

— Cynthia Hand

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

— Thomas Jefferson

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

— Rumi

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

— Bob Ross

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

— Mark Twain

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

— Pam Oliver

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain…

— Chico Mendes

We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ,…

— Henry B. Eyring

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go…

— Seneca the Younger

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

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Eric Burdon

If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind…

— Odysseas Elytis

Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even…

— Richard Preston

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked…

— Anthony Kiedis

When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken…

— Sara Teasdale

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a…

— Jonathan Swift

...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death…

— Jonathan Maberry

A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with…

— Anonymous

I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,…

— Davy Crockett

“The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.”

— A.E. Housman

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

— Shirley MacLaine

“No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

— Brad Warner

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

— J Mascis

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

— Scott Sigler

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

— William Blake

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

— Jerry Coleman

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

— Jose Saramago

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

— Friedrich Holderlin

“You're not a tree. So move; make something happen.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

— Anonymous

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

— Alice Walker

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

— Anonymous

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

— Ken Reardon