Tree Quotes - Page 31

• I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Emo, Nice

  "E=MO²". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.

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• I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Two

  "Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography". Album, 2002.

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• It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.

  Robert Dessaix

  Woods, Defining, Easier

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

  Franny Armstrong

  Country, Wind, Silence

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• I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Judging, Fruit, Bears

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Rubber, Condom, Deals

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

  Ramakrishna

  Motivational, Wish, Fruit

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.

  Jack Nicholson

  Feet, Bird, Want

  Source: the-talks.com

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Zoos, Animal

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Children, Empowerment

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• Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

  Peter King

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

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• In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

  Eric Bolling

  Party, Tea, Honor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Eye, Roots, Giving

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• If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

  Colin Wilson

  Hands, Training, Vision

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• The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

  George Bancroft

  Real, Rain, Fall

  George Bancroft (1841). “History of the Colonization of the United States”, p.49

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• Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Forests, Awareness, Learning To Trust

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• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.

  Henry Miller

  Horse, Stars, Reading

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.273, New Directions Publishing

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• Go on, fair Science; soon to thee
  Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
  Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
  But thou hast trained it to a post.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Nature, Science, Yield

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• Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

  Adi Shankara

  Spiritual, Fire, Light

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• Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Humble, Humility, Iron

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ”, p.527

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.

  William Law

  Silly, Fall, Sleep

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

  Abigail Adams

  Beautiful, Nature, Wind

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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