Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

The compelling thing about making artâ€”or making anything, I supposeâ€”is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and… — Ogden Nash
Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a… — Frederick Lenz
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts… — T.D. Jakes
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I… — Black Elk
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It… — Wooden Leg
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with… — Saadi
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties,… — Paul L Wachtel
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof,… — Williston Fish
The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be just for the… — David Berg
The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower… — David Berg
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the… — Dalai Lama
Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise… — Henry Van Dyke
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding… — Madeleine L'Engle
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a… — Seneca the Younger
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply… — Henry David Thoreau
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Henry Ward Beecher

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