Bark Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“There is a low mist in the woods— It is a good day to study lichens.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

— Rabindranath Tagore

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a…

— Anonymous

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But…

— Elizabeth Moon

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows…

— D. Elton Trueblood

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

— Suzanne Collins

“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots…

— Jim Robbins

Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,

— Felix Dennis

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive…

— Pablo Amaringo

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

— Howard Jacobson