Trees Quotes
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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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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
Gautama Buddha
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
Saul Bellow
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I rode a horse into a tree. I did. But I'm okay. Horses are naturally meant to avoid trees. This one didn't.
Eoin Macken
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Trees are like people. We’re alive, then we’re memories, then we’re not even that.
Allan Stratton
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As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
Homer
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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
Akhenaton
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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
Sue Townsend
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And where should mankind be without trees?
Chris Priestley
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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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The sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
R. M. Williams
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Caddy smelled like trees.
William Faulkner
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
Plato
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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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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 need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.
Isabel Lucas
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Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
Nikephoros of Chios
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It is a beautiful spot, endless forest stretching along the shore as far as the eye can reach ; and after driving through it for miles you come suddenly, at the end of an avenue of arching trees, upon the glistening, oily sea, with the orange-coloured sails of distant fishing-smacks shining in the sunlight.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
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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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It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
Herodotus
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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 only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a damn. I was pretty good at trees. I sucked at drawing faces. But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
Benjamin Alire Saenz