Trees Quotes · Page 63

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

— Tulsidas

“Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.”

— Kevin James Moore

“Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.”

— Johnny Shaw

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

— Edwidge Danticat

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

— Henri Matisse

“We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to…

— Aimee Bender

“I need you to do something. It's dangerous." "Yeah, because I am feeling really safe behind my tiny tree.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will…

— Wendell Berry

Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,…

— Winona LaDuke

“Then the Unlight of Ungoliant rose up even to the roots of the trees, and Melkor sprang upon the mound; and with…

— J. R. R. Tolkein

“The blur of looming evergreens zipped by me so quickly it was as though they were never really there at all. Sometimes…

— Bianca Scardoni

'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree…

— Rob Manuel

“When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will…

— Hermann Hesse

“That streetside tree is obscuring the air. Cut it down. Haul it in for questioning. There are secrets within that foliage. You…

— Benson Bruno

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb…

— John Marston

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have…

— Ellen G. White

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

— Steven Wright

“I look at our tree, at its leaves still reaching for the sun, still working to turn light into food. They don't…

— Ally Condie

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high…

— Laozi

When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the…

— Jamie Anderson

“At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and…

— Annie Dillard

“A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part…

— Francis Bacon

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The trouble with serenity is that it can then. The trees seem to lose their souls and look again like painted scenery.”

— Mona Simpson

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

— Eyvind Kang

“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody…

— Bob Ross

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom

— Peter Ustinov

“I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and…

— Robert Graetz

Imagine how perfect life would be if you didn't have to go to school or work and money did grow on trees.

— Anonymous

“unfeeling tyrants” who cared no more for their subjects’ lives “than…so many caterpillars upon an apple tree.”

— Michael B. Oren

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

— Edward Weston

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at…

— Audrey Hepburn

“The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree; The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag; The Wag, my pretty…

— Walter Raleigh

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of…

— Robin Hobb

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

— Martin Luther

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

— Jonathan Lethem

“Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet.”

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Adrian Sandvaer

“Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list…

— Bauvard