Tree Quotes

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

~ Johnny Marr

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

~ Muddy Waters

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

~ Max Greenfield

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

~ Karen Robards

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

~ Walter Scott

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

~ Chen Shui-Bian

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

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

~ Philip Sidney

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

~ E. O. Wilson

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

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 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

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

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

~ Hal Borland

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

~ Virgil

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

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

~ Jim Woodring

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

~ Wynn Bullock

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

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

~ Charles Jencks

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

~ Arthur Miller

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

~ Aimé Césaire

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

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

~ Paul Kurtz

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

~ Kim Elizabeth

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

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

~ Kate Chopin

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

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

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 looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

~ Chanakya

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

~ Henry Louis Gates

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

~ Fred Allen

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

~ Jaime Lerner

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

~ Ronald Kessler

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

~ Thomas Jefferson