Tree Quotes - page 2

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. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. View quote
Albert Einstein
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. View quote
Martin Luther
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? View quote
Ronald Reagan
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn. View quote
David Zindell
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. View quote
George Carlin
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. (Bruce Lee)
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. View quote
Robert Frost
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. View quote
Robert Frost
I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God." and the almond tree blossomed. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
A tree cannot grow in its parents' shadows. View quote
Octavia Butler
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I asked a thief to steal me a peach He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady. View quote
William Blake
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey. View quote
William Blake
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
William Blake
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones. (Tomas Tranströmer)
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. View quote
Martha Graham
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. View quote
Walter Scott