Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree…
— Alexander MacLaren
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I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you…
— Paulo Coelho
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It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
— Unknown Author
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can…
— Wallace Stegner
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If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of…
— Edwin Way Teale
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As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to…
— Henri Nouwen
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A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with…
— Llewelyn Powys
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Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
— Vladimir Horowitz
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The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars…
— Thomas Berry
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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
— Martin Luther
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What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
— Wangari Maathai
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Trees give peace to the souls of men.
— Unknown Author
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Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we…
— Wangari Maathai
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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
— Mario Puzo
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
— Alan Kay
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In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks…
— Lord Byron
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Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.
— Charles M. Schulz
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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