Trees Quotes

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

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.

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.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.