Tree Quotes
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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
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If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.
Louis Sachar
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein
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I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
James Douglas
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
Aaron Patzer
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Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
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I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'
Dionne Warwick
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In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
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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.
Ogden Nash
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I am looking forwardto become humus myselfburied naked without coffinunder a beech tree planted by myselfon my land in ao tea roa. p6
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
