Trees Quotes
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It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
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God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
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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.
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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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.
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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.
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Trees are like people. We’re alive, then we’re memories, then we’re not even that.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
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The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?
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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.
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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.
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And where should mankind be without trees?
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Man is nature as much as the trees.
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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.
