Plant A Tree Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• God cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Tree, Avalanches, Fool

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• As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Nature, Sarcasm

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Tree, Needs

  Quoted in Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 1966. Speech to Western Wood Products Association, 12 Sept. 1965.

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• A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

  Woody Allen

  Self, Tree, Defense

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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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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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media

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• He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

  Thomas Fuller

  Love, Nature, Science

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 2248, 1732.

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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• 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

  Fake People, Hypocrite, Cutting

  "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.

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• God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Garden

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• He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

  Louis L'Amour

  Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

  Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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