Quotes of Wood - somelinesforyou

“ Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ”

- Willa Cather

“ The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. ”

- William Cowper

“ Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck"! ”

- Johnny Carson

“ Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. ”

- Karl Baker

“ 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

“ The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - George Bancroft. ”

- George Bancroft

“ You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ”

- Saint Bernard

“ If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there to hear it, how will the Environmentalists react? ”

- Anonymous

“ Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. ”

- Gerry Adams

“ If a tree dies, plant another in its place. ”

- Carolus Linnaeus

“ A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree. ”

- Unknown

“ Trees shade us, but they know it not. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock. ”

- Gustav Klimt

“ We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. ”

- Kim Elizabeth

“ Those are the best trees that combine use with ornament. ”

- John Evelyn

“ A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. ”

- Spike Milligan

“ Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. ”

- Steven Wright

“ If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ”

- Bible

“ Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. ”

- Karl Barth
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