Tree Quotes

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We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their… — William McDonough
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. — Wangari Maathai
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and… — Thomas Berry
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. — William C. Bryant
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human… — Jane Hirshfield
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by… — George Berkeley
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and… — Edvard Munch
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect… — E F Schumacher
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,… — Sigmund Freud
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall… — Dave Cook
Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes… — Yvon Chouinard
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything… — Cheryl Strayed
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like… — Billy Graham
If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit… — P.J. O'Rourke
A brotherhood of venerable trees. — William Wordsworth
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that… — Charles Lindbergh
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. — David Douglas
You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. — J. P. Morgan

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