Tree Quotes - Page 24

• If you live, live free
  or die like the trees, standing up.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Live Free, Standing, Dies

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• A tree there is that from its topmost bough
  Is half all glittering flame and half all green
  Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
  And half is half and yet is all the scene;
  And half and half consume what they renew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Dew, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Insane, Rotten, Next

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• O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.

  Al-Ghazali

  Book, Men, Hands

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• Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Letting Go, Mother, Healing

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• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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• ...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

  David Fairchild

  Children, Garden, Cities

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• Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

  Elton John

  Artist, Woods, Sometimes

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

  James Balog

  Humility, Ice, Taught

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.

  Chris Martin

  Dog, Want, Life Is

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• George Foreman can knock down
  an oak tree
  ... but oak trees don't move.

  Angelo Dundee

  Moving, Oak Tree, Oaks

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• Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.

  John Hancock

  Fall, Common Sense, Water

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• Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Doe, Looks

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• While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.

  Paul Hawken

  Years, Rivers, Giving

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• the scythers, Time and Death,
  Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

  Robert Lowell

  Death, Time, Moving

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Odds, Long

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• I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.179, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Years, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Spring, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.56, Delphi Classics

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• It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Men, Landscape

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Plato, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.161, Graphic Arts Books

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• Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Pride, Feet

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

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• The tree is known by his fruit.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Fruit, Known

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• When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Juice, Hollow

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 4), irca 15 BC.

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