Activity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

— Henri Matisse

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

— Andrew Wiggins

“Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.”

— Feroz Bham

I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the…

— Sue Hubbell

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive.…

— Nicole Williams

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

— Shirley MacLaine

“One tree isn’t more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd) Yeah, but every forest is always…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw…

— Bruce Babbitt

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your…

— Tom Robbins

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

— Martha Gellhorn

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.

— Elle Casey

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

— Rainer Maria Rilke