Tree Quotes

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Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas… — Eugene O'Neill
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth… — Crazy Horse
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I… — Dylan Thomas
Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and… — John Muir
Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. — John Muir
They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in… — Will Rogers
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? — Emily Dickinson
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we… — Will Rogers
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot… — Theodore Roosevelt
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun… — John Muir
I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God… — Joyce Kilmer
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day… — John Greenleaf Whittier
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put… — Hal Lindsey
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,… — Alan Watts
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree. — John Bunyan
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water,… — Ernest Hemingway
Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By… — Annie Dillard

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