Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing…
— T. Harv Eker
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To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
— Peter Drucker
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If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!
— T. Harv Eker
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds…
— E. O. Wilson
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not…
— Thomas Huxley
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Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may…
— Max Delbruck
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches…
— Francis Bacon
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one…
— Francis Bacon
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There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one…
— Louis Pasteur
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of…
— John Owen
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Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth…
— John Owen
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It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of…
— Joseph LeConte
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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
— Jonathan Swift
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you…
— Rajneesh
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Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats,…
— Ben Jonson
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Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which…
— Edgar Cayce
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