Tree Quotes

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Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? — Lucy Larcom
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees. — Rick Hilles
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. — Edmund Burke
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Kathleen Raine
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they… — Ruskin Bond
The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the… — Francis of Assisi
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. — Siegfried Sassoon
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god… — Tacitus
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea? — James F. Cooper
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. — Henry Ward Beecher
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter… — Stephanie Mills
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush… — Mark Nepo
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… — Terry Pratchett
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of… — George William Curtis
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on… — Anton Chekhov

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