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Trees Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
- I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
- Trees indeed have hearts.
- 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…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
- Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply…
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
- Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees,…
- Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
- In some of those dense fir andspruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night,and every…
- The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a uniform…
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
- The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough…
More Trees Quotes
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I… — Douglas Adams
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. — Dave Barry
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. — Ambrose Bierce
- I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's… — Lewis Black
- Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. — Orlando Bloom