Top 1200 Tree Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

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.

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.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

The taste of guava is my first memory. I remember somebody picking it from the tree and throwing it down to me.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

I grow tomatoes, spinach and melons, a pepper vine climbs my coconut tree. I have a home and kitchen of my own.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.

I went to San Diego State and one of our home courses was Barona Creek. It's this open, no-tree look.

Olive oil is the cornerstone of Mediterranean cuisine. This tree is the thread from which the tapestry of the Med has been woven.

My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.