Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2389 authors

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance… — Emile M. Cioran
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking… — Alan Weisman
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. — Richard Allen
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its… — Hans Heysen
I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as… — Densey Clyne
The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And… — Harry Hooton
Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the… — Judith Wright
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees… — Morris West
Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate… — Hans Heysen
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I… — David Malouf
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. — Thomas Merton
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more… — Thomas Merton
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give… — Kabir
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear… — Abbas Kiarostami
Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though they are seeing… — Cesar Millan
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are… — Aesop
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott

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