Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.
— Pam Oliver
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on…
— Michel Odent
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The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like…
— Laozi
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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth;…
— Laozi
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An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
— John Ray
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Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives…
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death…
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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Trees cover up a multitude of sins.
— Bob Ross
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Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called…
— Hugo Ball
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As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and…
— Emily Carr
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Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon…
— Mary Webb
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Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a…
— Jean Klein
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There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne…
— Isak Dinesen
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I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began…
— Hokusai
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In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's…
— Howard Ashman
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Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means…
— Maneka Gandhi
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