Tree Quotes - Page 39

• Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pioneers, Boards, Citizens

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

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• The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

  Washington Irving

  Simple, Taste, Forests

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• The bay-trees in our country are all withered,
  And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven.
  The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,
  And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change.
  Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap;
  The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
  The other to enjoy by rage and war.
  These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Stars, Kings

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin (2011). “The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, People, Littles

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• Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.  Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Past, Wind, Encounters

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.14, Random House

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• I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill"s.

  Torrey DeVitto

  Crazy, Liars, Thinking

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

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• 'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.

  Daniella Alonso

  New York, Impact, House

  "Daniella Alonso Leaves Her 'Caliente' Mark in Hollywood" by Mayara Guimaraes, www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2012.

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• When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Philadelphia, Projects

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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• The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Vines, Ruins

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.495, GENERAL PRESS

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