Tree Quotes

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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as… — Henry David Thoreau
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? — Walter Scott
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it. — Confucius
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward… — Lucretius
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest… — Ronald Reagan
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress. — Henry Ward Beecher
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked). — Henry Ward Beecher
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is… — Rudy Rucker
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul… — William Kean Seymour
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the… — Gautama Buddha
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel… — Eckhart Tolle
Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the… — Max Muller
A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don't want to… — Thomas J. Hylton
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of… — Kim Novak
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was… — Johnny Weissmuller
The ripest peach is highest on the tree — James Whitcomb Riley

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