Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the… — Henry David Thoreau
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within… — Henry David Thoreau
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language… — Henry David Thoreau
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,… — Henry David Thoreau
The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up… — Lauren Oliver
School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways… — Ferdinand Foch
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my… — Jane Goodall
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees... — Andrew of Crete
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours… — Steven Pressfield
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence. — Jocelyn Murray
Some trees are too deeply rooted to move â€¦ And if they are uprooted, they will dieâ€¦ — Jocelyn Murray
Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. — Charles Spurgeon
Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle… — Maria Montessori
I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there! — Eddie Izzard
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. — Michael Bloomberg
The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you — John Naka

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