I have been fortunate to spend my adult life in places where I can be among the most impressive trees in the world such as Redwood Forests, Sequoia Trees and call California home.
Besides visiting different countries in the world, every opportunity I get, I have stepped into true wilderness treasure that California has to offer such as Ansel Adams Wilderness, Trinity Alps Wilderness, Desolation Wilderness and National Parks.
As I have wandered in these awe-inspiring vast land, been reading about the history and facts about the trees in the parks, I have come across several tree quotes.
I decided to collect very impactful tree quotes and compile a list for my reader’s pleasure.
Don’t forget to checkout my Tree Planting Quotes where I explore options for everyone to physically or virtually contribute to growing your own tree, even if you don’t have any space in your own home to grow a tree.
Inspiring Tree Quotes
“He who plants a tree. Plants a hope.” – Lucy Larcom
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” – John Muir
“Alone with myself the trees bend to caress me the shade hugs my heart” – Candy Polgar
“Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” ― Victor Hugo
“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.” – Wangari Maathai
“I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.”― Louise Dickinson Rich
“This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.”― Carl Sagan
“There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.”― Peter Wohlleben
“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”― Santosh Kalwar
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
“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.” ― Wangari Maathai
“You can’t have the fruits without the roots.” ― Stephen Covey
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” – Martin Luther
“Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.” ― Munia Khan
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” –Nelson Henderson
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” ― Paulo Coelho
Also checkout my list of inspiring journey quotes.
“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”― Karen Joy Fowler
“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.” ― Bob Ross
“Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”― Herman Hesse
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”― Nelson Henderson
Wow, that is very well said, isn’t it ? More on the cute life quotes here.
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ― Warren Buffett
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ― Chris Maser
“I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.” ― Louise Dickinson Rich
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”― Chad Sugg
“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”― Herman Hesse
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.”― Wendell Berry
2. “The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.” – Ray Manzarek
“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees.”― Theodore Roosevelt
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ― Chinese Proverb
“To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination.”― Joan Maloof
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”― Martin Luther
“Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.” ― Munia Khan
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ― Chinese proverb
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”― Franklin D. Roosevelt
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Basil
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”― Jodi Thomas
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”― Kahlil Gebran
“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” ― W.S. Merwin
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”― John Muir
“He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller
“Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.” – Alexander Smith
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”― William Shakespeare
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”―
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”―
“That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.” – Egyptian tomb inscription
Also read my collection of inspiring walking quotes.
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”―
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”―
“Trees’re always a relief, after people.”― Black Swan Green
“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.” ―
“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.” ―
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” ― Herman Hesse
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
“Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.” – Martin O’Malley
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.” ― Wendell Berry
“It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.” – Wilson Flagg
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” – Khalil Gibran
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek Proverb
“This solitary Tree! a living thing produced too slowly ever to decay; of form and aspect too magnificent to be destroyed.” – William Wordsworth
“I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” –Albert Schweitzer
“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.” ― Bob Ross
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.” – William Blake
“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.” – Carolus Linnaeus
Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn.” – Lord Orrery
Now that we are talking about trees being the blessings to children, I also find find another must do with kids are to travel with them. I have my life of go to Travel With Kids Quotes and Family Travel Quotes
“And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.” – Kathleen Raine
“We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.” – Everett Mamor
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” –Hermann Hesse
“The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.” – Tom Felton
“Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.” – Susan Fenimore Cooper
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.” – John Muir
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” – Jack Handey
The trees are God’s great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green across the world His thoughts serene.” –Leonora Speyer
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” – Willa Cather
“Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.” – Malay proverb
“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” – Mirabel Osler
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.” – George William Curtis
“People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.” ― Bryce Nelson
“Trees indeed have hearts.”― Henry David Thoreau
“Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.” ― Colin Tudge
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”— Dolly Parton
“Trees are your best antiques.”― Alexander Smith
“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.”― Welsh proverb
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.”― Malay proverb
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”― Elizabeth Lawrence
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.”— Alexander Pope
“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”― Albert Schweitzer
“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”— Hal Borland
“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.”― George William Curtis
“How beautiful leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”― John Burrough
“Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.”― Guinea proverb
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.”— Chinese proverb
“Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees.”― unknown
“The trees encountered on a country strollReveal a lot about that country’s soul…A culture is no better than its woods.”― W.H.Auden
Life Lessons with Tree Quotes
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. – Abraham Lincoln
Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you. – Claude Monet
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. – John Muir
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.- Warren Buffett
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. – Martin Luther
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. – Joyce Kilmer
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. – Albert Einstein
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. – Henry David Thoreau
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at? – Ronald Reagan
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. – Adlai Stevenson I
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. – Joyce Meyer
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. – Rodney Dangerfield
All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. – Chief Seattle
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. – Adlai Stevenson I
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. – Joyce Meyer
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain
My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we’d string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool – they saw it as a form of self-expression. – Jessica Biel
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. – George Bernard Shaw
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree. – John Muir
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. – Carl Jung
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. – Bruce Lee
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. – Robert Frost
One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad. – John Muir
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. – T. S. Eliot
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. – Rodney Dangerfield
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. – Robert Frost
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being. – Lou Holtz
You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself. – Malcolm X
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. – Audrey Hepburn
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. – John Muir
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree. – John Muir
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this? – John Muir
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment. – John Muir
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. – Jim Rohn
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. – Martin Luther
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. – Walter Scott
When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan. – Jane Goodall
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. – Jane Goodall
‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. – Alexander Pope
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. – Taylor Swift
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life – this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can’t be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don’t have what we call intelligence, and they’re surviving just fine. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now. – Alice Walker
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. – Douglas Adams
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. – Rabindranath Tagore
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. – William Blake
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. – Blaise Pascal
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. – D. H. Lawrence
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. – Albert Schweitzer
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. – Taylor Swift
As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. – Woody Allen
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. – Saint Teresa of Avila
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. – Georgia O’Keeffe
The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is. – Abraham Maslow
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. – Orson Welles
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. – Virgil
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. – Marianne Williamson
California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through. – Drew Barrymore
Fake is as old as the Eden tree. – Orson Welles
I started finding hearts in things – whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful. – Drew Barrymore
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? – Ralph Marston
I’d say that ‘Tree of Life’ is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film. – Brad Pitt
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.- Chanakya
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
I’d say that ‘Tree of Life’ is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film. – Brad Pitt
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love. – Ram Dass
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. – Huey Newton
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. – Henri Matisse
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. – Thomas Fuller
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. – Robert H. Schuller
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. – Franz Kafka
Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul. – Ellen G. White
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted. – Ramana Maharshi
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham
When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, ‘How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?’ That’s what mattered to me. – Stevie Wonder
The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today. – Eliud Kipchoge
People don’t remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park. – Yoko Ono
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable. – Tom Waits
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has. – Christopher Hitchens
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. – Neil Gaiman
I have this exercise that I propose to everybody: Hug a tree and complain for a minimum 15 minutes. Be yourself, and do something that you really feel deeply. – Marina Abramovic
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top. – John Burroughs
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own. – Ezra Taft Benson
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom. – John Burroughs
A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground. – John Burroughs
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. – John Burroughs
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism. – John Burroughs
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. -Paul Cezanne
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. – Henry Miller
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. – Ogden Nash
Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree, et cetera. I don’t feel that way with vegetables. Fruit, you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit; I like the color. – Christian Louboutin
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.- Louis Pasteur
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job – this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce – that’s when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. – Eddie Vedder
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
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