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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.
- O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees…
- 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…
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
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I… — Douglas Adams
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. — Dave Barry
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the… — Edward Abbey
- California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it,… — Drew Barrymore