Branches Quote by Thomas M. Disch

We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at…

— Carl Sagan

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the…

— Charles de Lint

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a…

— Frederick Lenz

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into…

— Bill Crawford

“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears to us…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be.…

— Anonymous

You know what I get from your profile picture? As time goes by, the tree grows into a bigger, stronger plant, but it started…

— DaHandsome/Nathan

“In some ways, my mother was right; a tree does look the same from the top as it does from the bottom: same branches,…

— Elissa Janine Hoole

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can…

— Wendell Berry

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights…

— Emily Carr

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you…

— Betty Smith

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery