Tree Quotes

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

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.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

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.

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.

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.