Tree Quotes - page 6

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. (Maggie Stiefvater)
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon. View quote
Guy Debord
An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. View quote
John Fletcher
If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do. View quote
Henry Rollins
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying God. It "consents,” so to speak, to God's creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree. View quote
Thomas Merton
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. View quote
A. E. Housman
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation. View quote
Northrop Frye
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. View quote
Alexander Smith
Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. (Shel Silverstein)
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree. View quote
Hugh Everett
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. View quote
John Muir
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies. View quote
Bob Dylan
They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph. View quote
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples – in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs. View quote
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down. View quote
Bob Marley
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. View quote
Virginia Woolf
When Nations grow Old, The Arts grow Cold And Commerce settles on every Tree. View quote
William Blake
My absolute favorite 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. View quote
Douglas Adams
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. (Rodney Dangerfield)
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
When a big tree falls, the earth shakes. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows. View quote
Confucius