Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American…
— Frank N. Ikard
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon…
— Hamlin Garland
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not…
— Seneca the Younger
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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
— James Russell Lowell
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Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care…
— Judi Dench
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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you…
— Alanis Obomsawin
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything…
— Tim Winton
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This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to…
— Richard Blumenthal
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We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees…
— Walter de La Mare
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
— Thomas Merton
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people,…
— Cesare Pavese
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In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
— Paulo Coelho
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I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle…
— Margaret Fuller
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The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant…
— Baird T. Spalding
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
— George Washington
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