Trees Quotes

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping… — John Hay
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. — Elliott Smith
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks! — Homer
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again — Pericles
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...… — Ronald Reagan
Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually… — Thom Yorke
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo
Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth. — Emile M. Cioran
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do… — Paul Watson
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers… — Helen Keller
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you… — Wangari Maathai
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff… — Wangari Maathai
Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture,… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted… — Wallace Stevens
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." — Wallace Stevens
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of… — E. Cobham Brewer
It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really… — Dave Haywood
Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name. — Stephen Vincent Benet
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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