Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. — Woodrow Wilson
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to… — Samuel Johnson
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for… — Billy Graham
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to… — Karl Kraus
Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths. — Margaret Sanger
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit… — Juan Ramon Jimenez
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. — Earl Warren
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. — Earl Warren
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is… — Wangari Maathai
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees.… — Remy de Gourmont
The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin… — Beryl Markham
The tree falls not at the first stroke. — John Ray
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant. — Matsuo Basho
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way… — Richard Avedon
Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow. — Les Dawson
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view. — Felix Baumgartner
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that… — Brian Eno

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