Tree Quotes

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The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint… — John James Audubon
When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit. — Brigham Young
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio,… — Davy Crockett
Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in… — John Muir
Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. — Douglas Hyde
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. — Theodore Roosevelt
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been… — John Muir
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… — John Muir
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their… — Gifford Pinchot
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of… — Charles Fort
My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of… — Errol Flynn
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . — John Muir
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther… — John Muir
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big… — Davy Crockett
A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek -… — Emily Dickinson

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