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" Quotes and Sayings About trees

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Deeper Make Roots Storms
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

Solitary Grow Strong They
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Country Life Kingston Trees
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I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Yard Tree Granted Alive
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

Teenagers Surveys Logos Staggering
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Happen Lip Their Came
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

Fly Bird Dry Leaves
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Alive Better Creature Dead
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

Wish Light Must Keep
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Birds Breeding Business Christmas
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Abound Among Another Delight
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

People Plant Seed Teach
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Citizens Difference Little Make
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Angry Because Country Culture
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

More Must Never Plant
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Autumn Away Blown I Think
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Amazing Blue Day Dream
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Cannot Cared Disease Drought
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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.

Branches Cease Ear Enthusiasm
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Around Coming Day Directions
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Best Depends Desirable Feed
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Any Away Bark Cannot
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It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Any Easier Explain Feel
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Best Broad Climb Close
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Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Beautiful Beauty Consider Deep
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Blame Reveal Revealing Secrets
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Abroad Also Born Carried
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God Writes Gospel Not
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Eyes Herbs Only Perceive
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Came Everything Felt Glory
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Apple Ask France Happiness
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All dead trees decay and go to hell. But if you light it up, and inhale it, the smoke carries their soul to heaven.

Trees Hell Decay Smoke
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“Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.”
Nature Trees Deep Roots
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Person Honest Straight Trees
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Upright Dealing Forest Straight
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Acres People Represent Trees
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Bear Best Fruit Grow
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I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Friends Companies Wounded Vanquished
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If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.
Olive Hands Planted Oil
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About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Trees Hugged Ground Quivering
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Basically Cows Fresh Fruit
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Learned School Pencil Paper
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Agile Down Elves Focused
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafless - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
Trees Gorgeous Autumnal leafless
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There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

Sports Growing up Loved Race
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