Tree Quotes · Page 63

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

— Pierce Brosnan

If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the…

— Kabir

Stop waiting for your prince charming. Go find him. The idiot might be stuck or something

— Anonymous

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the…

— Saint John Chrysostom

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

— John Hillaby

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit…

— Samuel Johnson

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent,…

— Steven Wilson

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must…

— Zachary Schomburg

Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a…

— Blake Shelton

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's…

— Daniel H. Pink

I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it.…

— Jack Nicholson

I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest…

— Steve Case

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then…

— Alice Oswald

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the…

— Richelle Mead

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm awful at skiing, made slow and hesitant by an unyielding and morbid fear that I will propel into a tree or…

— Cord Jefferson

My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.

— Michael Beck

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be…

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Kyle MacLachlan

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

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

— Rachel Field

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

— Imran Khan

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Leonard Lauder

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

— Hope Jahren

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Egon Schiele

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

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

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

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

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

— Jean Toomer

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

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

— Adrian Sandvaer