Top Tree Quotes Collection

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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
- Barbara Walters
Collection: Tree

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
- Donald Miller
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Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
- Samuel Rutherford
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Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.
- George S. Clason
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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
- Olive Schreiner
Collection: Tree

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
- Billie Letts
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
- Gregory Maguire
Collection: Tree

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.
- Patrick O'Brian
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The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.
- Lisa Ann Sandell
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If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
- P. L. Travers
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Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Tree

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.
- Muriel Barbery
Collection: Tree

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!
- Spike Milligan
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Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.
- Lori Foster
Collection: Tree

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
- Nick Drake
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As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
- Walter E. Williams
Collection: Tree

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
- W. S. Merwin
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Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.
- Marc Bolan
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Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.
- James Boswell
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The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
- Richard Baxter
Collection: Tree

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.
- Jim Trelease
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Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
- Bob Ross
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If trees could speak they wouldn't
- Dorianne Laux
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Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'
- Clarence Jordan
Collection: Tree

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
- Constantin Brancusi
Collection: Tree

Nothing can grow under big trees.
- Constantin Brancusi
Collection: Tree

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Collection: Tree

I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.
- Kevin Hearne
Collection: Tree

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
- Saul Williams
Collection: Tree

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
Collection: Tree

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Collection: Tree

A single tree doesn't make a forest.
- Chris Bradford
Collection: Tree

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.
- Art Spiegelman
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There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.
- Ruskin Bond
Collection: Tree

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
- Ruskin Bond
Collection: Tree

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?
- Emo Philips
Collection: Tree

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.
- Alcaeus
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There is no stranger under the cherry tree.
- Kobayashi Issa
Collection: Tree

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Collection: Tree

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
- William Boyd
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The ripest peach is highest on the tree
- James Whitcomb Riley
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
- Bob Seger
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I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.
- Margot Robbie
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I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.
- Chris Cleave
Collection: Tree

Cause not a tree to die.
- Mongkut
Collection: Tree

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.
- Barbara G. Walker
Collection: Tree

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
- Weegee
Collection: Tree

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