Tree Quotes - Page 28

• Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Anchors, Sea, Black

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1932, Delphi Classics

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• In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Roots, Care

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• A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Robes, Coronation

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.574, Oxford University Press

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• Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

  Joanna Lumley

  Flower, Animal, Bird

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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  Nancy Farmer

  Ostriches, Elephants, Rivers

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• That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.

  Bryan Swanson

  Wind, Storm, Lines

  "BAY AREA / Storms head for soggy Bay Area / 'Wet, windy' through end of the week" by A. Estrella, www.sfgate.com. December 28, 2005.

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• The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and at-tractive.

  Andrew S. Draper

  Children, Flower, School

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• The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.

  Andrew S. Draper

  Appreciation, New York, Children

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• November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

  Jean Hersey

  Running, Morning, Wall

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Summer, Games, Years

  "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• I've killed enough of the world's trees.

  Stephen King

  World, Enough

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

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• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  Jessica McNamee

  Aunt, Australia, People

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• The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Political, Forests

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Political, Quality

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• Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Looks, Way, Totems

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• It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Real, Knowing, Different

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• I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

  Bill Blass

  Spiritual, Believe, Sky

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• Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

  Kathy Acker

  Dog, Powerful, Believe

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.37, Grove Press

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• At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Cat, Dark

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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• There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.

  David James Duncan

  Beautiful, Moving, Men

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• I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Fishing, Worry

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• When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
  [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

  George Herbert

  Hatchet, Fallen

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Squares

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• You are my koala bear, and I am your tree.

  Zoe Sugg

  Koalas, Bears

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• I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

  John Boorman

  Color, Green, Freak

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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