Tree Quotes · Page 51

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

— Martin Luther

The taste of guava is my first memory. I remember somebody picking it from the tree and throwing it down to me.

— Wunmi Mosaku

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

— Jonathan Lethem

No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights,…

— Danica Patrick

“One person may look and only see a tree, whereas others may look and see a tree with leaves.”

— Adrian Sandvaer

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a…

— Tom Robbins

Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.

— William C. Bryant

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him…

— Anonymous

I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet…

— Amy Lowell

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as…

— Michael Ondaatje

“As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of…

— john knowles

I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of…

— Jessi Kirby

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's…

— Lewis Black

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady…

— Anna Sewell

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,…

— William McDonough

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. .…

— Edith Sitwell

I'm sure tea tree is good for you, but I don't know what it does because I'm not a holistic healer.

— Michelle Buteau

The tree is stripped, All color, fragrance gone, Yet already on the bough, Uncaring spring!

— Ikkyu

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

— Andrea Gibson

Never feel sad on losing anything in your life because whenever a tree loses its leaf another is ready to take its…

— Anonymous

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

— John Keats

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and…

— Cheryl Strayed

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

— A.C. Grayling

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and…

— Jay Griffiths

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

— Nikephoros of Chios

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,

— Jean Toomer

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he…

— Rachel Caine

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

— Leonard Lauder

The bonsai tree symbolizes some of the keys to a lasting marriage and life: nurturing, patience, caring and growth.

— Anonymous

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

— Egon Schiele

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my…

— Boris Yeltsin

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

— Anonymous

For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months.

— Hope Jahren

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never…

— James M. Barrie

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based…

— Haley Barbour

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from…

— Kyle MacLachlan

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

— Imran Khan