The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms. — Matsuo Basho
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. — Anonymous
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. — Henry David Thoreau
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. — David Icke
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. — Pink
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render. — Edgar Fawcett
An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn. — Wayne Dyer
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. — Arabic Proverbs
One who is near a good tree will be well shaded. — Spanish Proverbs
The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn. — James Allen
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
A tree that is born crooked, its trunk never straightens. — Mexican Proverbs
The noise of the great tree with the twig, the light of the happy house with the offspring. — Turkish Proverbs
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes. — Alexander Pope
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom — Janet Erskine Stuart
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Oak Tree Image Quotes
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho
If you don't like where you're at, move you're not a tree.
Old Oak Tree Quotes
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. — Rudyard Kipling
Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone! — Henry Chorley
I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade. — Wilson Rawls
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. — Robert Browning
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side
Is now the fitting place for thee:
When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
The youthful tendril yet may hide,
The ruins of the parent tree. — Walter Scott
For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be.
Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
They're all growing green in the old countrie. — William Ernest Henley
Olive Trees Quotes
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. — Odysseas Elytis
Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God. — Rabbi Akiva
He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together. — Virginia Woolf
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. — Henry David Thoreau
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit. — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson
Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. — Yasser Arafat
Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore. — Stephen Spender
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree. — Colin Tudge
Pine Tree Quotes
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible. — Euell Gibbons
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. — Henry David Thoreau
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. — Hamlin Garland
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir
Many parts of a pine tree are edible. — Euell Gibbons
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. — Thomas Merton
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo — Matsuo Basho
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant. — Morihei Ueshiba
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir
Growing Tree Quotes
Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard. — Lewis Grizzard
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.” — Afeni Shakur
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. — Nachman of Breslov
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. — Amy Carmichael
Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. — Mother Teresa
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees. — Chief Joseph
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. — Mother Teresa
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in — Greek Proverbs
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet. — Joseph Beuys
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see." — Joe Frazier
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. — Sylvia Pankhurst
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree. — Patience Strong
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. — Kahlil Gibran
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. — E. F. Schumacher
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.' — Adyashanti
Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges. — Derek Rydall
When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin. — Sterling W Sill
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another. — Shirley Ann Grau
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better. — E. F. Schumacher
Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see. — Toby Keith
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. — Maya Angelou
It's not about the way you look
It's not about your face
It's all about the way you think
It's all about your grace
You're love is like a power chase
You're like an oak tree growing in a flower vase — Mac Lethal
A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up. — David McGee
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. — Proverbs
The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once. — Zeppo Marx
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree. — Richard Louv
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult. — Clive Anderson
Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. — Maya Angelou
Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes. — Marianne Williamson
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. — A. A. Milne
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. — John Keats
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — Henry David Thoreau
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently. — Maya Angelou
The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use. — Nicholas Culpeper
From the great trees the locusts cry
In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
In the blue distance sobs-the wind
Wanders by, heavy with odors
Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
Greets them, one by one-now the oak
Now the great sycamore, now the elm. — Hamlin Garland
If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! — T. Harv Eker
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances. — Kirk Douglas
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree. — Andrew Marvell
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word. — Steven J Lawson
George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move. — Angelo Dundee
When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star. — Dennis Merzel
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters. — Thomas Paine
There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up in amusement "Then we could pelt Blackfoot with acorns and he'd think they came from StarClan — Erin Hunter
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. — Marianne Williamson
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? — Emily Dickinson
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. — Mary Oliver
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