Quotes of Tree - somelinesforyou

“ I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech. tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart and the great spirit will always be with you. ”

- Native American proverb

“ Trees are your best antiques. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ”

- Hal Borland

“ I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. ”

- John Muir

“ It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore. ”

- Egyptian tomb inscription circa 1400 BC

“ I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. ”

- Dr. Suess

“ Alone with myself, the trees bend to caress me. The shade hugs my heart. ”

- Candy Polgar

“ Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ”

- J. Lubbock

“ It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. ”

- Wilson Flagg

“ And the boy loved the tree… very much. And the tree was happy. ”

- Shel Silverstein

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky. ”

- Kim Taplin

“ Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity. ”

- Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ”

- Minnie Aumonier

“ The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. ”

- Moliere

“ Who leaves the pine. tree, leaves his friend, unnerves his strength, invites his end. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ”

- Chinese proverb

“ A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. ”

- John Muir

“ Do not be afraid to go out on a limb… That’s where the fruit is. ”

- Anonymous

“ The groves were God’s first temples. ”

- William Cullen Bryant

“ The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ”

- Chinese proverb

“ He who plants a tree plants a hope. ”

- Lucy Larcom
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