Tree Quotes

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

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

~ Mamata Banerjee

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

~ John Lasseter

Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.

~ Terry Teachout

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

~ Lucy Stone

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

~ Marcus Garvey

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

~ Henry David Thoreau

People like to say how much they like stuff, but with 'The Sunset Tree,' people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff's so humbling and amazing.

~ John Darnielle

I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.

~ Kristen Stewart

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.

~ Carolyn Murphy

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

~ Ai Weiwei

Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. Coming off Laguna, being 19 years old, and thrown into this odd, ridiculous spotlight, wasn't for me. There have always been haters, and people don't want to give you a chance or the benefit of the doubt, but this show gave me an opportunity.

~ Stephen Colletti

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 Cézanne

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

~ Lord Byron

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

~ Lynda Barry

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

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

~ Chris Pratt

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

~ Susan Blackmore

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

~ Stephen Fry

Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

~ Alex Berenson

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

~ Czeslaw Milosz

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

~ Rajiv Gandhi

I do this system called TRX. It was developed by a Navy SEAL and is basically a simple cord that you can wrap around something anywhere, anytime, and you use your body weight as resistance. We installed one in our home gym, but you can also attach it to a tree. It's very easy to travel with.

~ Elizabeth Banks

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

~ Douglas Brunt

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

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

~ Ryan Lochte

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

~ Robert Zemeckis

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

~ Thomas Campbell

I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

~ John Darnielle

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

~ Carolus Linnaeus

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.

~ Chelsea Cain

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

~ Spike Milligan

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

~ Marc Chagall

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

~ Jim Rohn