Trees Quotes
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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
George Raveling
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In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.
Eban Goodstein
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Man is nature as much as the trees.
Dan Kiley
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If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
Susan George
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Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.
Ernie Els
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It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
Kate Horsley
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Outside, the trees do their witchy dance.
August Kleinzahler
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I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
Homer
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.
Elisabeth Murdoch
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I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo
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When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
Jules Verne
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The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?
Adelaide Crapsey
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.
Emily M. Danforth
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The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.
J. R. R. Tolkien
