Growth Trees Quotes

#1. Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.

John Muir

#2. Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual growth of all the trees on earth could yield alcohol enough to run everything that now uses coal and petroleum - every airplane, every industry, every automobile.

John McPhee

#3. The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Haruki Murakami

#4. You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

William Jay Gaynor

#5. I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Imelda May

#6. I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Georges Simenon

#7. Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Gaston Bachelard

#8. Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...

Mary Russell Mitford

#9. Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

Robert Fortune

#10. Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth

Rolf Peterson

#11. But when she reached in, toward the place in her chest where that monster dwelled, she found only cobwebs and ashes.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

A.J. Darkholme

#14. Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Charles Dudley Warner

#16. To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Ho Chi Minh

#17. Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

Robert Henry Thurston

#18. You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

John F. Carlson

#19. Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is vrooom.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

John Ford

#21. Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#22. It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

A.A. Milne

#23. There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

Dalai Lama

#24. Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees ... Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

Margaret Sanger

#25. The longer you resist the calling of your soul the harder it is to find your way back. Intuition isn't instilled in us for nothing, it's the movement inside us that we must listen to if we want the void to vanish.

Nikki Rowe

#26. These woods are second or third growth and sadly lost their leeks long ago. It turns out that when forests around here grow back after agricultural clearing, the trees come back readily but the understory plants do not.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#27. Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.

D'Andre Lampkin

#28. Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

James C. Collins

#29. We have to believe that the desires we have in our hearts will be fulfilled if we continue to trust and believe in him and His Word.

Chloe M. Gooden