Henry Ward Beecher Tree Quotations

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.