Tree Quotes

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.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

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.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.