Tree Quotes

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I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by… — Henry David Thoreau
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of… — Alan Watts
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way… — Wendell Berry
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging… — Henry Ward Beecher
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. — Ezra Pound
On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built. — Hafez
Long ago Apollo called to AristÃ¦us, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden… — Henry Van Dyke
No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time. — Frank Bolles
There is nothing wrong with anger. Anger is a beautiful emotion, as valid and rich as joy or laughter. But you have been taught to… — Leonard Jacobson
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as… — Phillips Brooks
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she… — Morgan Llywelyn
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates… — Joseph Sittler
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is… — Thomas Merton
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy. — Bob Ross
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. — Rabindranath Tagore

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