Tree Quotes

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.