Tree Quotes

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.