Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. — Theodore Roosevelt
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been… — John Muir
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… — John Muir
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their… — Gifford Pinchot
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of… — Charles Fort
My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of… — Errol Flynn
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . — John Muir
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther… — John Muir
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big… — Davy Crockett
A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek -… — Emily Dickinson
Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas… — Eugene O'Neill
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth… — Crazy Horse
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I… — Dylan Thomas
Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and… — John Muir
Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. — John Muir
They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in… — Will Rogers
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? — Emily Dickinson
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we… — Will Rogers

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