Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny… — Carl Sagan
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of… — Chanakya
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that… — Joe Frazier
Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's… — Nicole Williams
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto… — Samuel Rutherford
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds. — Mark Tobey
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with… — William James
The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body. — Deepak Chopra
The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees — Peter Drucker
We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting… — Alan Dean Foster
If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest. — Unknown Author
The best friend of earth of man is the tree. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its… — Henry David Thoreau
According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on… — Michel Odent
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like… — Laozi
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth;… — Laozi
An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest. — Ming-Dao Deng
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be. — John Ray
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Trees cover up a multitude of sins. — Bob Ross
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called… — Hugo Ball
As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and… — Emily Carr
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon… — Mary Webb

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