Tree Quotes · Page 47

I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I…

— Jason Mraz

“There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him…

— Sandra Dallas

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer...

— Ruskin Bond

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

— Charles R. Swindoll

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest…

— Hafez

We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis,…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

— James A. Garfield

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls…

— Marcus Aurelius

The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because…

— Nicholas Culpeper

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,…

— H. G. Wells

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

— Albert Schweitzer

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me…

— Wynn Bullock

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden…

— Samuel Rutherford

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is…

— Gautama Buddha

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love…

— Vanessa Hudgens

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

— Anne Sexton

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes,…

— Laurie Holden

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

— Katy Lederer

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at…

— Neil Young

Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that…

— Jack Handey

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

— William Blake

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

— Alain Ducasse

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

— Luigi Orione

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

— Vladimir Horowitz

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

— Joe Manganiello

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

— Greg Reitman

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted…

— Brendan Fraser

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

— Richard Bach

If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet…

— Henryk Skolimowski

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

— Michael Dolan

“Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.”

— Frances Hardinge

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in…

— Felix Dennis