Green Trees Quotes - Page 2

• The earth is what we all have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Earth Day, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

  James G. Watt

  Tree, Environmental, Forests

  "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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• God cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Tree, Avalanches, Fool

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• If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

  Stephen Girard

  Tree, Making A Difference, Environmental

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Men, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

  Cyril Connolly

  Tree, Green, Epitaph

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir”, HarperCollins

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• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Nature, Accomplishment, Miracle

  "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

  Carson McCullers

  Tree, Perception, Green

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Pride, Years, Tree

  Henry Fothergill Chorley, “The Brave Old Oak”

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• Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Journey, Tree

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• I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about it but I am. I loved seeing all the westerns, but I had asthma and couldn't go anywhere, but I loved watching them in Technicolor and seeing the cowboys and the landscapes of Monument Valley and you'd see the forests of the Anthony Mann films and think, 'wow, that's fantastic', but I could never go there!

  Martin Scorsese

  Cowboy, Thinking, Tree

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Sky, Tree

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• Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Letting Go, Cheer, Spring

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is there a home, a home for me? Where the people stay until eternity? Is there a road that winds up, underneath the big green tree? Is there a home, a home for me?

  Stan Ridgway

  Home, Wind, People

  Song: Underneath the Big Green Tree

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• Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.

  Mary Antin

  Giving Up, Memories, Drinking

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hate, Ocean, Blue

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.23, Hamilton Books

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• It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.

  Annie Dillard

  Tree, Mind, Mountain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Blow, Wind

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.146, Rutgers University Press

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• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

  William Morris

  Wall, Thinking, Two

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

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