Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she… — Morgan Llywelyn
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates… — Joseph Sittler
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is… — Thomas Merton
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy. — Bob Ross
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. — Rabindranath Tagore
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher
A forest doesn't weep over one tree. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after… — Learned Hand
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I… — Learned Hand
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... — James Russell Lowell
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation… — Victor Hugo
Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies? — Yip Harburg
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees,… — Leo Buscaglia
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli

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