Tree Quotes - Page 6

• As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Nature, Sarcasm

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the heart, and ravish sense. In love's sweet swoon to thee I cleave, Bless'd source of love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sweet, Heart, Roots

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• As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

  Jonathan Weiner

  Home, Safe, Imagine

  Jonathan Weiner (1991). “The next one hundred years: shaping the fate of our living earth”, Bantam

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• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  Arthur Miller

  Apples, Stuck, Doomed

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Man is nature as much as the trees.

  Dan Kiley

  Men

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

  F. S Flint

  Flower, White, Fields

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• Boys need wood to chop.

  Stephen D. Nadauld

  Boys, Needs, Woods

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• Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

  Robert Frost

  Night, Window, Between You And Me

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Stars, Future

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

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• Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

  Dogen

  Dragons, Doe, Stills

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• If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

  Stephen Girard

  Making A Difference, Environmental, Today

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• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Climbing, White, Snow

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Needs, Looks

  Quoted in Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 1966. Speech to Western Wood Products Association, 12 Sept. 1965.

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• Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Science, Humanity, Forests

  "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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• We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

  Paul Morley

  Mother, Flower, Cutting

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Healing, Shadow

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.133, Counterpoint Press

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

  Alice Walker

  Life, Dance, Flower

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Hope, Lord, Lost

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Life Without Principle" (1863)

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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