Top 55 Tree Cutting Quotes
#1. Gansey's phone buzzed.
"Gansey, man, is this diseased tree cutting into your digital time?" Ronan asked.
The fact was the digital time was cutting into his diseased tree time.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. Tree cutting and yoga, who knew Bethany was so multi-talented.
Tellulah Darling
#3. You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
Donella Meadows
#4. If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll
spend 7 hours to sharp my
knife.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens ... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
#6. Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon
Matsuo Basho
#7. I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.
Carolyn Chute
#8. Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.
Helen Chenoweth-Hage
#9. It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
George Eliot
#10. A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down
Gautama Buddha
#11. The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
Rush Limbaugh
#12. He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. But men are cutting down the trees without replacing them. For every tree that's felled, we must plant two. Otherwise, one day there'll be no forests at all, and the world will become one great desert.
Ruskin Bond
#14. I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
Michael Palin
#15. Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!.
Zhuangzi
#16. But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
Wendell Berry
#17. If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
John B. S. Haldane
#18. It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree ... I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.
Lindsay Lohan
#19. Cutting down that tree was my last war!" I asked him who won, which I thought was a nice question, because it would let him say that he won, and feel proud. He said, "The ax won! It's always that way!
Jonathan Safran Foer
#20. Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again
Gautama Buddha
#21. It is a very pretty observation of old Isaac Ambrose that the gum which exudes from the tree without cutting is always the best.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Baron De Montesquieu
#23. A nation who sits like cows on the fields while the country's trees are being cut down ruthlessly deserves the emptiest deserts thousands of times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?
James F. Cooper
#26. If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest.
Pam Oliver
#27. Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history.
The Wombat
#28. A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
Walter Bagehot
#29. Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
Vladimir Horowitz
#30. When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.
George Nakashima
#32. Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?
Magenta Periwinkle
#33. As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.
Max Muller
#34. Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.
Woody Harrelson
#35. Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
Gautama Buddha
#37. I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth
#38. People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.
Rob Delaney
#39. If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
Vinoba Bhave
#40. Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
Gautama Buddha
#41. Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
#42. It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
Toussaint Louverture
#43. A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.
Ann Zwinger
#44. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue.
George Orwell
#45. I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.
Bruce Springsteen
#46. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
John Muir
#47. I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.
Susan Orlean
#48. I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
Andy Goldsworthy
#49. To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
Christina Stead
#50. The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
Bill Vaughan
#51. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.
Yoko Ono
#52. There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard.
Dan Florence
#53. You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.
Jim Rohn
#54. At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.
Delmore Schwartz
#55. Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.
Eckhart Tolle
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