Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher
A forest doesn't weep over one tree. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after… — Learned Hand
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I… — Learned Hand
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... — James Russell Lowell
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation… — Victor Hugo
Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies? — Yip Harburg
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, â€” its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees,… — Leo Buscaglia
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or… — William Shakespeare
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there… — Hal Borland
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… — Toni Morrison
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the… — William Blake
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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