Top 1200 Tree Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to be as whole and well as I could be, and as happy. I wanted to see what a fortunate life would produce. What writing would come out of a mind that didn’t try to torment itself? What did I have to know? What did I have to do rather than what can I torment and bend myself into doing? What was the fruit on that tree?

If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I'm one of those people.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven.

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to suffer, but I source the 18th Century philosopher David Hume in association with the experience. He asserted that when we go to a tragic play, and when the form of tragedy is well put together, then we can experience a catharsis that is soul cleansing, and an anodyne to what our life would be like without it.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.

Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.