Top 100 Trees Are Quotes
#1. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#2. Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
Eleanor Of Aquitaine
#3. I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.'
spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
Cornelia Funke
#4. Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
Bauvard
#5. Autumn teaches us a valuable lesson. During summer, all the green trees are beautiful. But there is no time of the year when the trees are more beautiful than when they are different colors. Diversity adds beauty to our world.
Donald L. Hicks
#6. Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
Diane Frolov
#7. Winter," she said. "The trees are going to get all gray and spindly. And of course, there are the Pumpkin Lattes.
Sharon Bayliss
#8. Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
Karen Joy Fowler
#9. The whole existence is a temple ... the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.
Rajneesh
#10. The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#11. Trees are a miracle in themselves; they do not require God to be miraculous.
Ned Hayes
#12. Out here,
the open night is my church,
the trees are my congregation,
the stars are my angels and
the moon is the only god that I know.
A.P. Sweet
#13. Of all the trees on all the planet, no two trees are exactly alike yet they are all trees.
Laura Paulisich
#14. Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.
Rajneesh
#15. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?
Robert Southey
#16. Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.
A.E. Housman
#17. To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.
Jane Goodall
#18. Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#19. 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
#20. It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.
Joseph LeConte
#21. This feels good, being back in Michigan ... You know, the trees are the right height.
Mitt Romney
#22. The trees are so huge that they shut you up.
Anne Lamott
#23. Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
Billy Connolly
#24. Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#26. Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.
Blake Shelton
#27. Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.
When the trees are leafless;
When the fields are bare;
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.
Mary Howitt
#28. Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
William C. Bryant
#29. What kind of trees are those?" I asked.
"Heartwood," my father said. "They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.
James Lee Burke
#30. Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. 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
#33. Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
Felix Dennis
#34. Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
Algernon Sidney
#37. It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.
King Tuff
#38. The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
Charles Kingsley
#39. Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die ...
Jocelyn Murray
#40. It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#41. When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.
Anne LaBastille
#42. Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust
#43. Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Ambrose Bierce
#44. 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
#45. The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
Aleksandar Hemon
#46. Let's go inside. The trees are swaying back and forth. I think that is my cue I've had way too much to drink.
Anna Todd
#47. The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one's nerve centers against a tree trunk. For hours he discoursed on the physical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants.
Paulo Coelho
#49. Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees.
Daniyal Umar
#50. In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
John Muir
#51. Only trees are rooted in land, and there they stay. You should know this, great oak. But a man whose heart is rooted in family finds a home wherever his pack is, and he is truly the free man.
Dannika Dark
#52. Trees are worth more alive than dead
Prince
#53. Life is defined by time and seasons. Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering. Spring brings warmth and blossoms of flowers. Fall brings the falling of leaves and cool days. Winter brings cold dry harsh weather and trees are without leaves.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
Winifred Holtby
#55. Why," Tanuki grumbled, "would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that but people.
Tom Robbins
#56. If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Franz Grillparzer
#57. Trees are massacred, houses go up - faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
Emile M. Cioran
#60. Trees are silent guards, they are the listeners and they hold knowledge mankind has long forgotten." - The Wolf and The Druidess
Cornelia Amiri
#61. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
#62. Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.
Mantak Chia
#63. Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds ... Lonely trees are not lonely!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.
Steven Clark Rockefeller
#65. Do you think trees are the new birds? Don't answer that right away.
Julie Klausner
#66. Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees ... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream ...
Ernest Dowson
#67. The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives .
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#68. Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.
Joan Aiken
#70. The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
William C. Bryant
#71. I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
Sloane Crosley
#72. The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain. ... Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort of harmony: it's the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
Werner Herzog
#73. All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
Laozi
#74. This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I'm pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.
Mira Grant
#75. Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.
Jo Walton
#78. if the trees are arms that hold up the sky, when we have cut the last trees, the sky will fall on top of us.
..old indios song
Lucia Giovannini
#79. Trees are always the cure for your modern bollocks.
Kevin Hearne
#80. Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
Colin Tudge
#81. Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. The people protesting to save these woods are right - these trees are almost untouched. His voice was different somehow. It was exactly the sound in his voice that I heard at the funeral of my great-uncle.
Ned Hayes
#83. The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
Aldo Leopold
#84. Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
#85. All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
Laurie Anderson
#86. Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities... There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other... If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
Jane Goodall
#87. Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth
#88. Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
Plato
#89. There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?
Noel Gallagher
#90. Trees do not require you to make certain sounds to be understood. They are simply present and ready for you to climb at any time. Trees are easier.
Ned Hayes
#91. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.
Susanna Kearsley
#92. All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.
Neem Karoli Baba
#93. God Almighty, I love life. Even this vile place, where the trees are shattered stubs and where nothing grows but craters, even the sights, scents, sounds, and stirrings of this place are preferable to the unchanging nothingness of the Great Darkness.
Dan Simmons
#94. With profound love, kindness, and harmony trees are endlessly extending their blessings. That is why we are still living.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#97. You call me a bitch? Well, a bitch is a dog, dogs bark, bark is on trees, trees are part of nature and nature is beautiful so thanks for the compliment.
Anonymous
#98. We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.
William McDonough
#100. I'm sorry but I don't need saving. Maybe pour all that energy into a worthy cause, like saving the whales, or the Rainforest. I hear trees are being cut down at an alarming rate.
Jayde Scott
