Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

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… — Kathleen Raine
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they… — Ruskin Bond
The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the… — Francis of Assisi
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. — Siegfried Sassoon
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god… — Tacitus
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea? — James F. Cooper
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. — Henry Ward Beecher
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter… — Stephanie Mills
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush… — Mark Nepo
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… — Terry Pratchett
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of… — George William Curtis
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on… — Anton Chekhov
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade. — Andrew Marvell
Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds! — Henry David Thoreau
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress'… — Andrew Marvell
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of… — Unknown Author
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses… — Wendell Berry
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the… — Dana Gioia
I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for… — Dr. Seuss
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world. — Russell Page

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