Trees Quotes

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And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their… — Kathleen Raine
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors? — Bertolt Brecht
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident… — William Carlos Williams
The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung,… — Al Gore
Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs,… — Kathleen Raine
There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in… — Charles Dudley Warner
Man is nature as much as the trees. — Dan Kiley
By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting… — Unknown Author
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer… — Andrew Young
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees. — Rick Hilles
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Kathleen Raine
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they… — Ruskin Bond
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. — Henry Ward Beecher
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush… — Mark Nepo
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… — Terry Pratchett
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on… — Anton Chekhov
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress'… — Andrew Marvell
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the… — Dana Gioia
I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for… — Dr. Seuss

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