Tree Quotes · Page 28

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

— Elton John

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

— Ian Frazier

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

— Constantin Brancusi

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Ein alter Baum ist so ehrenwert wie ein Greis.”

— Ernst Wilhelm Heine

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

— David Archuleta

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

So for anyone who is stumped by how to decorate their tree; Think of your own theme and see what inspiration you…

— Hilary Farr

“Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights…

— Emily Giffin

People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.

— Rob Delaney

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

— Stephen Moyer

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide,…

— Manuel L. Quezon

“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way ," Glory said. "A tree in the forest ?”

— Tui T. Sutherland

I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the…

— Henri Matisse

("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above…

— Nicole Krauss

A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of…

— Ilona Andrews

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of…

— Simone Weil

The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is…

— Michael Horton

Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each…

— Judith Wright

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the…

— Olive Schreiner

The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of…

— Martin Carter

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

— Paulo Coelho

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

— Hosea Ballou

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

— Philemon

“If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.”

— Paul Cezanne

“…the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.”

— Laurie Beth Jones

I've already brought enough shame on the family without halting the family tree.

— Alan Carr

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.

— John Rhys-Davies

“The apple does not fall far from the tree.”

— Harper Lee

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

— Janet Erskine Stuart

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

— Alexander Pope

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

— Lisa Ann Sandell

“A tree looks a lot taller in the desert than it does in the forest.”

— Pwp