Tree Quotes - Page 40

• I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

  George Washington

  Lying, Cutting, Cherries

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• If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humanity, Looks, Growing

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• A gift is like a seed; it is not an impressive thing. It is what can grow from the seed that is impressive. If we wait until our seed becomes a tree before we offer it, we will wait and wait, and the seed will die from lack of planting.... The miracle is not just the gift; the miracle is in the offering, for if we do not offer, who will?

  Wayne Muller

  Offering, Waiting, Miracle

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.285, Bantam

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• There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree
  The less he spoke the more he heard
  The more he heard the less he spoke
  Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree?
  Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Wise, Owl, Speech

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• That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

  Shirley Franklin

  Cat, Leader, Problem

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• You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

  Morena Baccarin

  Book, Fall, Character

  "Set Visit: Deadpool - Interviews with Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, & more!". Interview with Paul Shirey, www.joblo.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.

  Allan Jacobs

  Given, Fund, Expenditures

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• Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Memories, Today, Tomorrow

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• Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

  Willa Cather

  Today, Walking

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• Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Sports, Dog, Song

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• The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

  Sean Parker

  Wind, Decision, Leader

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

  Rumi

  Spring, Tiny, Should

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• The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Wind, Roots

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.340, Zondervan

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• To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

  Gerald Jonas

  Profound, World, Knows

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• You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Play, Climbs, Knows

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Green Fields, Sky

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.9, Om Books International

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• 'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses.

  Bill Maher

  Fetus, Saving, Way

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• On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Years, Benefits

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• Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Secret, World

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• The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

  Albert Einstein

  Long, Giving, Feelings

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• Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know.

  Peter Russell

  Memories, Hook, Growing

  Peter Russell (2013). “The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it”, p.106, Routledge

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• I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Destiny, Feet

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• Our testimonies, like . . . trees, must be built on a sure foundation, deeply rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ, so that when the winds and rains come into our lives, as they surely will, we will be strong enough to weather the storms that rage about us.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Strong, Jesus, Rain

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