Tree Quotes

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln)
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. View quote
Warren Buffett
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. View quote
Arthur Miller
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
Woody Allen
I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. View quote
Spike Milligan
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. View quote
Lord Byron
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash)
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. View quote
Henry Miller
I love a tree more than a man. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. View quote
William Blake
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. View quote
Wangari Maathai
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. (Louis Pasteur)
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. View quote
Paul Kurtz
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. View quote
Joyce Kilmer
The ripest peach is highest on the tree. View quote
James Whitcomb Riley
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. View quote
Abraham Lincoln