Home Quote by Hermann Hesse

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still!…

— Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

— Hermann Hesse

A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring…

— Hermann Hesse

When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed…

— Hermann Hesse

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

— Hermann Hesse

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an…

— Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.…

— Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

— Hermann Hesse

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

— Hermann Hesse

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

— Daniel Johns

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, 'That is an oak tree', or 'that is a banyan tree',…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much.

— Sefi Atta