Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Trees are worth more alive than dead — Prince
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after… — Thomas S. Monson
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I… — Roy Lichtenstein
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots. — John Lyly
When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star. — Dennis Merzel
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be… — Byron Katie
Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… — Muriel Barbery
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. — George S. Patton
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life. — Pope Benedict XVI
If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches. — Vinoba Bhave
A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree… — Mary Ellen W. Smoot
When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin… — Sterling W Sill
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees. — Janisse Ray
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned.… — Tom Robbins
I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic. — Liam Gallagher
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying… — Lisa See
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. — Cyril Connolly
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze… — Joshilyn Jackson
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned… — Mervyn Peake
Fame is like a tree. It helps you get pussy. — Jon Lajoie

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