Tree Quotes - Page 37

• If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lonely, Next, Middle Of Nowhere

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• It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Space, Bird

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• No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Autumn, Sky

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• Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Neighbour

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• Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Woodpeckers, Dull, Speed

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• How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Giving, World

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

  Jill McCorkle

  Notebook, Growing Up, Paper

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• Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Artist, Clouds

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Passion, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 07, 2017

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• Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

  Ogden Nash

  Wind, Branches

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• Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.

  Joseph Sittler

  Sea, Air, Hands

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• To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Bird, Dollars, Wildflowers

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• Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

  John Keats

  Blow, Wind, Legends

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.422, Delphi Classics

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• The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

  Steve Farrar

  Choices, Quality, Generations

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family”, p.51, Multnomah

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• Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

  Jill Lepore

  Book, Way, Rings

  "Look It Up: Shelving the Encyclopedia Britannica" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.

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• History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Clouds, Sky, People

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Pain, Sadness

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

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• It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

  Edgar Degas

  Moving, People, Would Be

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• In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Order, Fruit, Limbs

  Shirley Maclaine (2011). “Out on a Limb”, p.317, Bantam

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• Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

  Saint Augustine

  Errors, Light, Wind

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• The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
  As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

  Kabir

  Ocean, Asking, Disease

  Kabir (2013). “Songs of Kabir”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he is creative, whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Men, Creative

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• Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Thinking, Rocks

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• I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

  Aldo Leopold

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.128, Oxford University Press

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• Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

  Andy Warhol

  New York, Hard Work, Cities

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