Tree Quotes

• willow of crystal, a poplar of water, a pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over, tree that is firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving, advances and retreats, goes roundabout, arriving forever:

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Wind

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Bad
  • Tree

• I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Air
  • Tree

• Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

  

  Aristippus
  • Education
  • Ability
  • Fruit

• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Live
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Single

• That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Sunlight
  • Divides

• There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Up
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar. Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Journey
  • Wood

• Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Inspiring

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Lust

• Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Beautiful
  • Tree
  • Uniform

• A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Different
  • Single
  • Forest

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Promise

• Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• On why criminals rob nice-looking houses You come up on a house where the grass is this tall, and there's a dog chained to the clothesline, and a motor swinging in the tree, buddy, that's a house where a gun lives! And you want to find out what kind it is, just crawl through the window after dark.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Men
  • Die
  • Jesus

• When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • People
  • May
  • Jesus

• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Physical
  • Tomboy

• A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Tree

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