Inspirational Tree Quotes - Page 2

• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Christmas

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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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• I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

  Dr. Seuss

  Nature, Tree, Tongue

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

  John Muir

  Happiness, Nature, Travel

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Trust, Sarcastic, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

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• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Life Without Principle" (1863)

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The groves were God's first temples.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Tree, Firsts

  William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss (1975). “The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1865-1871”, p.49, Fordham Univ Press

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• No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

  John Muir

  Cutting, Tree, Church

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.237, Library of America

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• I think that I shall never see
  A billboard lovely as a tree.
  Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
  I'll never see a tree at all.

  Ogden Nash

  Fall, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Song of the Open Road" l. 1 (1933) See Kilmer 1

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• Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Spring, Tree, Earth

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.203

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Sweet, Thinking, Tree

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Soulmate, Knowledge

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• I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Song, Flower, Tree

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• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Summer, Sweet, Nature

  "Trees" l. 11 (1913)

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• Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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• The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tree, Forests, Arbor Day

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Music And Life

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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• Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

  Emily Bronte

  Fall, Autumn, Tree

  Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

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