Tree Quotations | Page 3

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.

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

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

I am trying different styles, and while you can't climb a tree or jump on a crocodile in a dress, it is nice to get dressed up every now and then and kind of walk away from the khaki for a moment.

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

I was hanging onto that tree and I prayed. Dude, I prayed so good I thought I might become a preacher.

My uncle works in the prison, so he's still there and he said a lot of the houses are straight. My sister's house had a tree fall on it, but it didn't do too much damage. It's nothing we can't rebuild. You can't replace a life, but you can replace the houses and the fences.

I would hate to see a tree come down on a little kid ---- a little child ---- all because we didn't make the right choice up here.

Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.

Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....

One of the things I'll ask for in the future is that we have a deeper (contact) tree on the next of kin for all of our employees, so we have more ways to get in touch with them.

One of the things is to break stereotypes of what an environmentalist is. When I was growing up it was seen as weird, tree huggers.

One tree can make 300 pounds of fruit.

One boulder was stuck in a tree -- the size of a car engine.

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

My daughter called during the storm and said a tree had fallen on the house but everyone was OK . . . and then, nothing for 24 hours.

Now that they have decided to not come so close to personal property, I don't think any of us in Grandview have as many issues to discuss with the developer. As long as the creek remains within its nature bed and as long as the tree cover and wood remain intact, the majority of our complaints have been answered.

Right away that raises a red flag with me when you say you are limiting tree removal. I wasn't aware there would need to be any tree removal. Have any comments come back from the G.L.E.N. Committee?

Right now, at least they're doing the cleanup. That's very necessary. They're pulling out the tree from the sinkhole.

My first role was a tree at the Fox Theatre in Aurora in the Wizard of Oz .

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

I don't know what tree we're barking up,

Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride, Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .

There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree

The plans do not call for a tree in the wall. We're going to send somebody out to look at this.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

Most people don't realize that we have mosquitoes year-round. The winter varieties, known as tree stump mosquitoes, lay eggs in tree stumps that then fill with water. But this year they aren't limited to finding water pools inside rotting stumps. They can be anywhere with all this rain.

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.