Trees Quotes

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.