Tree Quotes

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

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.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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.

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.

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.

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.