Trees Quotes

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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. — Winston Churchill
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he… — Jack Handey
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow… — Jack Handey
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the… — Henry Ward Beecher
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. — Max Lucado
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But… — Harold Pinter
Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the… — Alamgir Hashmi
The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. — Unknown Author
A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air. — Mike Lowry
The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad,… — Charles Kingsley
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial… — Thomas Browne
And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed… — Toni Morrison
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God,… — Unknown Author
Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of… — Hokusai
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one… — Jose Saramago
Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head,… — Radical Face
Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves,… — Radical Face
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the… — John Steinbeck
Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms. — Sam Ewing
I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but… — Edward John Trelawny
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the… — Pliny the Elder
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it — Dan Fogelberg

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