Tree Quotes · Page 4

Tree killing is arborcide.

— Ed Koch

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

— Alexander Pope

A paper cut is a tree's last revenge.

— Anonymous

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Those trees seem to grow every year...

— Peter Alliss

History is like a constantly changing tree.

— David Irving

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

— Jim Woodring

“Shake the tree. See what falls down.”

— Åsa Larsson

I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.

— Bill Engvall

“If you don't like something, change it. You are not a tree.”

— Veronica Roth

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“By itself, a tree is meaningless, but it is the meaning of the word “tree.”

— Alan W. Watts

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

— Periander

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

— Constantin Brancusi

♪Kyo-kun and Tohru sitting in a tree... K-I-S...♪ - Shigure Sohma

— Natsuki Takaya

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

— David Douglas

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

— Mary Hunter Austin

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

— Steve Buscemi

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to…

— David Walker

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees…

— Kyo Maclear

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

— Austin O'Malley

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

— E. B. White

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...

— Cate Tiernan

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of…

— Helen Fisher

Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to…

— William Dean Howells

Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it…

— David Malouf

It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with…

— Cheryl Strayed

For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other…

— Melina Marchetta

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was…

— James Boswell

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory…

— Gore Vidal

My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you…

— John Hodgman

I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

— Hope Jahren

Man is nature as much as the trees.

— Dan Kiley

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

— Isaac Deutscher

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

— Bob Ross

The rigid tree will be felled.

— Laozi

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

— Charles M. Schulz

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

— William Bulfin

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

— Rajiv Gandhi