Aging Quote by Anonymous

What an elderly man sees while sited, a child can never see it though he climbs on a tall tree.

— Samuel Kermis

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

— Gustave Flaubert

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

— Felix Baumgartner

“Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility…

— Ralph Helfer

I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it…

— Laurie Graham

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a…

— Frederick Lenz

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of…

— Julia Hill

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth.…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

— Howard Jacobson

“Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.”

— Vagabond

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

— Mary Russell Mitford

A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is…

— Charles Eley