Planted Trees Quotes

#1. I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

Donald Glover

#2. What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

Origen

#3. Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

Jim Butcher

#4. Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#5. The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Sherwood Anderson

#6. You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth,
You have said my name as a prayer.
Here where trees are planted by water
I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret,
And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say.

Louise Bogan

#7. I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

Rory Stewart

#8. She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.

David Mixner

#9. Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#10. Happiness would prevail where trees were planted.

Stefan Zweig

#11. Never underestimate your abilities. You may never know you were the one who planted the seed that changed someone's life. From little seeds grow beautiful large plants and trees that add beauty to the world.

Raven Williams

#12. Through it all we held fast to the concept of the clock with no hands. Tasks were completed, sump pumps manned, sandbags piled, trees planted, shirts ironed, hems stitched, and yet we reserved the right to ignore the hands that kept on turning.

Patti Smith

#13. By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.

William Allingham

#14. Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move.

Auliq Ice

#15. She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#16. I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Wendell Berry

#17. If God had meant for us to have fiberglass boats, he would have planted fiberglass trees.

L. Francis Herreshoff

#18. I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

Jackie French

#19. Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning.

Federico Pena

#20. If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

Mahmoud Darwish

#21. It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

Guy Gavriel Kay

#22. 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

#23. The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#24. Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

Jamsetji Tata

#25. Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

Thomas Merton

#26. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

James Fenimore Cooper

#27. Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

William H. Whyte

#28. I never before knew the full value of trees ... What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#30. Shade for a man
And shelter for animals,
Planted in your name,
May you be the same for those around you,
Every year the same.

Nancy J Cavanaugh

#31. The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

Christopher Atkins