Trees Quotes
Chad Sugg
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
4221 J.K. Rowling
Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.
2258 Munia Khan
If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write
1559 Lailah Gifty Akita
If every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees.
4258 Guy Gavriel Kay
It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
2886 Charles De Lint
All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
2838 Simona Panova
The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.
3844 John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
1398 Lao Tzu
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
4883 C.J. English
I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.
1719 Anne Bishop
Why?"
He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.
1029 Unknown Author
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1499 Rainer Maria Rilke
Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.
1668 Michael Delaware
Don't you see? You created this forest! It is your imagination that has given these trees the water to grow. It is your hopes that blazed a path through it. It is your dreams that give it the magic. All of this was created from within you!
3056 Susan Freinkel
If the day comes when our descendants can venture with wonder into chestnut forests, we will have gained back more than a perfect tree. We will have gained a new reason for hope.
2645 Bauvard
We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.
2390 Bauvard
Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
4340 Walt Whitman
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
2759 William Blake
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
4960 Luci Anneu Sèneca
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
4713 Natalie Babbitt
You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?
1658 George R.R. Martin
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
4924 Richelle E. Goodrich
Life is a walk through the forest. Don't fear the trees; fear what lurks behind them.
2500 Alberto Caeiro
A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.
But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.
Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.
1424 John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
2075 Brian Jacques
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
1110 Gaston Bachelard
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
3033 Vera Nazarian
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
3602 Michael Pollan
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
1396 Alan Lee
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.
4270 Robert Frost
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.
4978 Kathleen Raine
And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance -
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.
2969 Henry Van Dyke
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
2093 Laura Lafargue
I wish the trees would go into leaf that I might find out what they are. In their present undress I cannot recognise them. It's true that I doubt if I should know my best friends-men or women-with their clothes off.
4454 David Abram
It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.
3137 Scott Blum
I'm such a fan of nature, and being with the trees every day fills me with joy.
4497 Marty Rubin
The story of the tree is written on every leaf.
4066 Donald L. Hicks
If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.
1501 Joyce Sidman
What Do the Trees Know?
What do the trees know?
To bend when all the wild winds blow.
Roots are deep and time is slow.
All we grasp we must let go.
What do the trees know?
Buds can weather ice and snow.
Dark gives way to sunlight's glow.
Strength and stillness help us grow.
3453 Munia Khan
Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.
3782 Stasia Bliss
Only the trees, only the trees. Like a key they see beyond the mystery, waiting patiently ever holding me while I hold the sky.
4252 Radclyffe Hall
Do you believe in God, Martin?'
And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?'
'I'm not sure...'
'Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.
4523 Nathanael West
It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.
4813 Stefanie Brook Trout
Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.
3486 Alberto Caeiro
Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,
Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems
Like there’s a light breeze blowing for a minute
But the trees are unmoving
In every leaf of their leaves
And our feelings have had an illusion,
An illusion of what would please them...
1749 Yann Martel
Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.
4244 Kevin James Moore
Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.
3296 Willa Cather
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
4324 Elizabeth Goudge
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
4802 Janet Mills
Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togetherness, while
separately we stand.
As two trees deeply rooted in
separate plots of ground,
While their topmost branches
come together,
Forming a miracle of lace
against the heavens.
3888 Michael Bassey Johnson
God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!
2946 Chris Maser
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
1655 L.M. Montgomery
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
3606 Daniel J. Rice
Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?
3786 V.C. Andrews
The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.
2323 Andrea Koehle Jones
I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.
3527 John Geddes
...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...
3478 Kurban Said
Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.
3316 Cassandra Danz
She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.
2103 Theodore Roosevelt
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
2558 Munia Khan
When you become a raindrop in your mind
Thunder is the closest friend you may find
Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust
Everything you will bear once you adjust
2192 Marcel Proust
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
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