Tree Quotations | Page 4

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

I didn't have any business being over there. I was right next to a root and should have just chipped it out sideways. I tried to hit it low enough to get around the root, but it just popped up, hit the tree and went into the creek.

I can't go anywhere until I finish this Christmas album, ... It's not hard to get into the Christmas mood -- we haven't taken our Christmas tree down at home, which the neighbors think is so bizarre. And it is. But this is a jazz Christmas album, so I don't have to be too traditional or mind too many rules. That's what's pulling me along.

From where we're standing to the house was about ten feet. I'd say nine or ten feet of debris. 'Cause we were climbing close to the knot on that tree up there.

I got a good bounce it hit the side of a tree and came out to the corner of the fairway. I hit a perfect 6-iron that almost went in. Those are the eagle putts you think you can make.

If it's worth cutting a tree for, it's worth doing right.

I don't care who you are or what business you are in, you don't give a guy his pink slip and make it get there when's standing in front of his Christmas tree taking a family photo with his child in his hands.

I had just parked my car and was standing across the street, watching the tree sway. Then one of my neighbors yelled at me to run, and it came down pretty much in front of me.

To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root

Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.

What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Humans plant every tree and flower they can, ... They make gardens everywhere.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

He could not live without adversaries, no more than a tree can live without soil; like mangrove trees, which make their own soil, he could create enemies from within himself.

He's got unbelievable vision on the ice. He reads the play so well and he's so hard to knock off the puck. He's got legs like tree trunks. For his size he's very strong.

He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.

Golden Tree Academy is more traditional in nature, being a pre-college preparatory school and dedicated to serving the needs of bright to gifted students.

We're probably going to have a tree planted during the course of the day, but this event is planned as a daylong affair that should offer something for all of our citizens.

Just pick you out a tree to stand under. I usually stay here pretty close to the truck. They don't seem to mind that.

I want to visit my parents graves and see the cherry tree blossom in Japan again.

I was very upset when I found the tree in that condition, damaged by the storm. But now it's alive again.

My momma was worried about this tree falling on the house.

My mom, two brothers, their families, my grandmother, my aunt and my uncle are all in a like a 25-square foot house with no power and a tree on top of it,

Lithe and long as the serpent train, Springing and clinging from tree to tree, Now darting upward, now down again, With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

Lithe and long as the serpent train,Springing and clinging from tree to tree,Now darting upward, now down again,With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

Look at it from the point of view of the animals that live in your garden. They did not evolve in a tidy landscape, they evolved in a landscape where leaves and branches and whatever fell off the tree and just lay there.

That eye wall is coming through, but its pretty moderate here. The only thing I can really see is tree limbs and some palm fronds in the road.

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn.

starting to get 50-, 60-mph winds, and the phones are going in and out. Tell Brett everything's OK. A tree did fall on my aunt's house, which is right by Mom's, but everyone's OK.

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Pine Tree outplayed us and was the better team tonight. They were better prepared, and you have to give credit to their coach and kids. The bottom line was that they did a better job than we did.

I saw a white T-shirt and a blond head on the other side of the tree and honked the horn for about 10 seconds,

I think we seem to concentrate on preparing kids for college. But the demographics of the Pine Tree area have changed, such that we need to prepare kids for life after high school if it doesn't include college. That's vocational training. I think that's very important, something we need to pay more attention to.

People are coming earlier and earlier for their trees. Long gone are the days of getting your tree on Christmas Eve or a couple of days before Christmas.

Just about every old tree in town is down. The town just will never look the same in our lifetime. It breaks my heart. I'm so disgusted. Just about every ancient pecan and a lot of the oaks are gone.

It is entirely fitting that we stand under this survival tree. This tree scarred by disaster, which has yet found a way to persevere. The wounds will never completely heal yet it continues to grow.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

I think the U.S. needs to keep up the pressure on the Nigerian government to pay attention to these people, and do something about their poor conditions. Because I honestly, truly believe these people will fight till death. And there's going to be one behind every tree from now on.

remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.

Right now, the chamber has one apple ruining the tree and that is bad, ... She got my money for the T-shirts, and she knew she wasn't going to give me the business.

I was having the tree cut down as a safety factor because it leaned way over the house.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe . . . ?

I was in my tree stand sitting on the edge of a cornfield about 6:30 p.m. when two deer walked out,

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be.

I think we can now safely respond to those who complain that there are those who really do want a Christmas tree in the center of downtown Kewanee.

It gets the parents committed so they don't book their child's birthday party on the day we're going to Tree Tops Park.

IT is pleasing to frequent the places from which the feet of those whom this world calls great have passed away, to see the same groves and streams that they saw, to hear the same sabbath bells, to linger beneath the roof under which they lived, and be shaded by the same tree which shaded them.

It appears that Thompson was carried down the hill where he struck a tree and was buried in approximately 30 inches of snow.

It could have been a lot worse. The tree service worked for five hours tying the tree so they could cut it down, but some of the rope just came loose.

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

Tree and Stone glittered, without shadows.My finger-length grew lucent as glass.I started to bud like a March twig:An arm and a leg, an arm, a leg.From stone to cloud, so I ascended.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,had been transmuted to bright gold.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of old growth there and to even attempt to transplant those would have disturbed the roots to the point where the tree would have eventually died.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

You'll find out very quickly if they like it. It's not for everyone. I've seen situations where a daddy wants their son to play, and really, there is a battle for that boy to come to practice three times a week. You'll know very quickly if they like it. If his helmet's always on, and he's hitting a tree in the backyard, he likes it.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

We aren't doing any more residential surveying. There's no more money for tree removal, so it doesn't make sense looking for it if we can't do anything about it.

We aren't protesting Home Depot and Wal-Mart, just the (city's) weak ordinance, ... It's criminal. This is (City Planner) Sam Jones' baby. He wrote 27 pages of the tree protection ordinance and this is what we got.

We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0, and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,

You already have every advantage in the world, ... You have spotting scopes, you have night scopes, you have rifles and shells. ... Just walking up and shooting a bear out of a tree from 20 feet away is not a sport.

We were lucky the house wasn't more damaged. My sister's room is back there and it didn't break a single window. We've been asking to get the tree cut down. They were waiting for something - for the ground to harden or something - to cut it down. I guess we waited a little too long.

We played a team up by Hobart that has a grain mill in the outfield, and you have to play around it. Our home field has a maple tree in right field. You just play around it.

We are the tropical fruit bowl of Australia. I would say every tree has been flattened. It looks like an atomic bomb has hit the place.

We had to swim underneath the door jams to get outside, where we clung to the gutters. We made our way to the back of the house and clung to the magnolia tree out there.

We've kind of ate, slept and breathed tree farming the last 20 years,

I was a dork hunter. That's hard to do. I fell out of a tree.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Well, (Ann) brought a tree and bought Christmas packages for the whole world, and what she didn't buy, she charged. I'm the only one to lose money at a bowl.

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywhere: That was a kiss.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

We have reports of damage -- tree damage right now fairly significant, also some reports of some vehicles that were overturned, and reports of damage to at least one home in the area.

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.