Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot… — Theodore Roosevelt
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun… — John Muir
I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God… — Joyce Kilmer
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day… — John Greenleaf Whittier
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put… — Hal Lindsey
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,… — Alan Watts
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree. — John Bunyan
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water,… — Ernest Hemingway
Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By… — Annie Dillard
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. — Joni Mitchell
When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they… — Mike Harding
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. — Ronald Reagan
This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent. — David Salle
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel… — Frederick Franck
When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up.… — Nichiren
After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back. — James G. Watt
As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall. — Simon Dach
Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf… — Lemn Sissay
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its… — George Nakashima
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same… — P L Travers
HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and… — Raven Grimassi
H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either.… — Bill Barich
We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or… — Alan Cohen

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