Trees Quotes

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

If every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

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.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

All our wisdom is stored in the trees.

I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.

Why?"
He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.

Don't you see? You created this forest! It is your imagination that has given these trees the water to grow. It is your hopes that blazed a path through it. It is your dreams that give it the magic. All of this was created from within you!

If the day comes when our descendants can venture with wonder into chestnut forests, we will have gained back more than a perfect tree. We will have gained a new reason for hope.

We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.

Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.

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