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Tree Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots…
- The tree is but a huge boquet.
- What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven…
- When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and…
- Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
- Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and…
- Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
- Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is…
- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
- No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
- Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
- Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
- If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the…
- A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
- Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest…
- The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its…
- 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…
- Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
More Tree Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
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- A Bird Sitting On The Branch Of A Tree Doesnt Get Frightened By The Shaking Branch, Because The Bird Trusts Not The… — Ritu Ghatourey
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- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved… — Richelle Mead
- The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they… — George R. R. Martin