220 Tree Quotes to Inspire and Uplift Your Soul

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Famous Tree Quotes

Trees are your best antiques — Alexander Smith

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. — Anton Chekhov

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. — George Nakashima

The noise of the great tree with the twig, the light of the happy house with the offspring. — Turkish Proverbs

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal. — Anandamayi Ma

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does — George Bernard Shaw

A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down — Buddha

One who is near a good tree will be well shaded. — Spanish Proverbs

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer. — Satish Kumar

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. — Kahlil Gibran

To a tree, there is no right or wrong. There is no good or bad. — Naval Ravikant

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. — Bill Nye

Trees we plant today are forests we enjoy tomorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. — Rabindranath Tagore

Short Tree Quotes

  • Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. — Chinese Proverbs
  • Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett
  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard. — Lewis Grizzard
  • If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. — Jim Rohn
  • If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish
  • Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center. — John Green
  • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
  • Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. — Martin Luther
  • If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. — Mahmoud Darwish

Tree Image Quotes

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. - Jacques Deval quote

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. — Jacques Deval

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. - Ed Coan quote

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran quote

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. — Kahlil Gibran

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. - American Indian Proverbs quote

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. — American Indian Proverbs

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me-- - George Orwell quote

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me-- — George Orwell

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees. - Frances Perkins quote

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees. — Frances Perkins

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. - Yip Harburg quote

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. — Yip Harburg

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. - Kobayashi Issa quote

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree. - Ray Davies quote

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree. — Ray Davies

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. - Elizabeth George Speare quote

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. — Elizabeth George Speare

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. - Bob Hope quote

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. — Bob Hope

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. - Leonard Cohen quote

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. — Leonard Cohen

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. - Arabic Proverbs quote

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. — Arabic Proverbs

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus quote

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. — Aristippus

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller quote

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. — Thomas Fuller

Tree quote If you don't like where you're at, move you're not a tree.
If you don't like where you're at, move you're not a tree.

Family Tree Quotes

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. — Rodney Dangerfield

A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place. — African Proverbs

Tree quote The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. — Casey Affleck

A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break. — African Proverbs

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. — English Proverbs

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. — Taylor Caldwell

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo

I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you. — Tyga

Palm Tree Quotes

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Sir Philip Sidney

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney

When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine. — Indian Proverbs

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. — Eban Goodstein

No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree. — African Proverbs

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 dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. — Michael Dolan

Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere. — Blake Shelton

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. — David A. Siegel

God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage. — Amin Maalouf

Be Like A Tree Quotes

Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. — Adi Shankara

Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life. — Adrian Frutiger

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength. — Manuel L. Quezon

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A life without love is like a tree without fruit. - Stephen King

A life without love is like a tree without fruit. — Stephen King

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. — Victor Hugo

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. — Thomas Browne

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. — Matsuo Basho

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds. — Ajahn Chah

Oak Tree Quotes

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees - Sappho

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho

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

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms. — Matsuo Basho

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

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Tree Planting Quotes

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. — St. Basil

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

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference — Wangari Maathai

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverbs

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. — Chinese Proverbs

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. — Wangari Maathai

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

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. — Ho Chi Minh

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. — English Proverbs

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. - Carl Linnaeus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus

Plant A Tree Quotes

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carolus Linnaeus

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

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom. — George Balanchine

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in — Greek Proverbs

He who plants kindness gathers love. — Saint Basil

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. — Ray Manzarek

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. — D. Elton Trueblood

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. — Eckhart Tolle

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations. — Lady Bird Johnson

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. — William Blake

Tree Of Life Quotes

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again. — Crazy Horse

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man — Ernest Shackleton

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. — Homaro Cantu

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. - John Muir

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — Rachel Carson

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. — Paul Kurtz

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo - Matsuo Basho

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo — Matsuo Basho

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. - Woody Allen

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. — Woody Allen

Growing Tree Quotes

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

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

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling. — Ric Ocasek

I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction. — Emmet Fox

Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. — Je Tsongkhapa

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. — Czeslaw Milosz

Tree Root Quotes

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. — Amelia Earhart

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood. — Marco Pierre White

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root. — Ho Chi Minh

Storms make trees take deeper roots. - Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf. — Rumi

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? — Richard Baxter

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley. — Seneca

Tree Branch Quotes

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. — Matthew Fox

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . — Charles Dickens

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. — Stephen Jay Gould

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. — Martin Luther

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. — Sathya Sai Baba

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. — Bertrand Russell

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tree Of Knowledge Quotes

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge. — Jay Griffiths

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that. — Frank Zappa

The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Timothy Leary

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race — Hugo Rahner

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. — Walt Whitman

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

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself — Albert Einstein

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better. — E. F. Schumacher

Beautiful Trees Quotes

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. — Alice Walker

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. — Robert Frost

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful. — Simone Weil

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree. — John Muir

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt

But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim. — Suzanne Collins

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees. — Lynn Kurland

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. — Enid Blyton

Old Trees Quotes

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt

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

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life. — Kim Novak

There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken. — Paul Ricoeur

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. — Pope Paul VI

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens

Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. — William Shakespeare

I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity. — Hélder Câmara

Tree Cutting Quotes

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. — Robert H. Schuller

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. — Alanis Obomsawin

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. — Chanakya

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. — Paul Morley

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to. — Clive Anderson

If you cut down the trees, you will find the wolf. — American Proverbs

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. — William Ellery Channing

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees. — Vladimir Horowitz

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again — Buddha

Tall Trees Quotes

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long. — Catherine Maria Fanshawe

Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart, and the great spirit will always be with you. — American Indian Proverbs

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. — Karle Wilson Baker

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) — J. R. R. Tolkien

The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go. — Opal Whiteley

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

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. — Saskya Pandita

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. — Sakya Pandita

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More Tree Quotes

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. — Kahlil Gibran

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. — Thabo Mbeki

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. — Martin Luther

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. — Indra Devi

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. — Bruce Lee

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. — Pablo Neruda

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer. — Wendell Berry

In Conclusion

The quotes about trees highlight their role in creating a healthy ecosystem. They emphasize the need to plant and nurture trees to combat deforestation and climate change. These quotes encourage us to connect with nature and find solace in the tranquility of a forest. By spreading awareness and appreciation for trees, these quotes motivate us to value and conserve our environment.

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