Tree Quotes · Page 67

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

— Jaime Lerner

“The mountain veiled in mist is not a hill; an oak tree in the rain is not a weeping willow.”

— Khalil Gibran

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath…

— Henry Van Dyke

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and…

— Niklaus Wirth

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner…

— Derek Rydall

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.

— Greg Reitman

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents…

— Rudyard Kipling

enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with…

— Emily Carr

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a…

— Edward Dowden

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just…

— George Harrison

The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of…

— William Wendt

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the…

— Esai Morales

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain…

— Douglas Malloch

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.

— Stephanie Kaza

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and…

— Anonymous

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

— Winston Churchill

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

— Janet Morris

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and…

— Russell Page

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to…

— Remy de Gourmont

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy…

— Yehuda Levi

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

— Andy Warhol

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

“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

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

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

— Joe Manganiello

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Greg Reitman

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

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

— Frances Hardinge

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

— Michael Dolan