Tree Quotes

• I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Nature
  • Blow
  • Defeat

• Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Tree
  • Saved Me

• During a mass extinction, vast swathes of the tree are cut short, as if attacked by crazed, axe-wielding madmen.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Madmen
  • Extinction
  • Attacked

• There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Country
  • Fence
  • Hills

• Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

  

  Akio Toyoda
  • Growth
  • Broken
  • Tree

• 'We are supposed to set you a good example,' said Devonet. 'As a start, I will point out that a lady of refinement would not wish to be found so high in a tree.''Then I am a lady of refinement well and truly,' said Madouc, 'since I did not wish to be found.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • High
  • Wish

• Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Soul
  • Singing
  • Spirit

• If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Present
  • Christmas
  • Beer

• Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

  

  John Hull
  • High
  • Tree

• The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.

  

  Earl Silas Tupper
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Tree

• The tree does not die, it waits.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Tree
  • Waits
  • Studieth

• The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
  • Nature
  • Christmas

• Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • Perspective
  • Tree

• I would take to be quite a fool any man who would make a book full of laws and statutes for an apple tree telling it how to bear apples and not thorns, when the tree is able by its own nature to do this better than the man with all his books can describe and demand.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Fool

• As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • True

• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Knowledge
  • Tree

• Yet look again - His horn is free,Rising above chain, fence, and tree,Free hymn of love; His hornBursts from his tranquil browLike a comet born;Cleaves like a galley's prowInto seas untorn;Springs like a lily, whiteFrom the Earth below;Spirals, a bird in flightTo a longed-for height;Or a fountain bright,Spurting to lightOf early morn - O luminous horn!

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Bird

• Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

  

  Adam Ross
  • Forever
  • Tree

• The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Fruit

• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

  

  George Washington
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Peace

• Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Tree
  • Patient
  • Swaraj

• We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Water

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