Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes… — Paul Hawken
For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf. — Maturin Murray Ballou
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. — William James
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he… — Jack Handey
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow… — Jack Handey
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… — Henry Ward Beecher
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. — Robert H. Schuller
Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. — Max Lucado
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an… — Simon McBurney
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But… — Harold Pinter
The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them. — Earl Tupper
Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the… — Alamgir Hashmi
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree — Thomas Paine
The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. — Unknown Author
It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going… — Mike Mason
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. — Alan Watts
A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air. — Mike Lowry
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. — Jaime Lerner
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I… — Bill Cosby
The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the… — Swami Vivekananda
If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber? — Unknown Author
The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad,… — Charles Kingsley
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial… — Thomas Browne

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