Tree Quotes

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping… — John Hay
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. — Elliott Smith
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also,… — James Madison
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree â€” the greatest tree in the forest? You may… — Chinua Achebe
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did. — Chinua Achebe
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the… — Carl Jung
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. — Carl Jung
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as… — Thaksin Shinawatra
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks! — Homer
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again — Pericles
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...… — Ronald Reagan
Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually… — Thom Yorke
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo

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