Trees Quotes

I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.

~ Johnny Galecki

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

~ Gina Rodriguez

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

~ Bill Goldberg

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

~ Bill Goldberg

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

~ Alice Walker

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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

~ Molière

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

~ John Muir

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

~ Edward Steichen

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

~ Winston Churchill

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

~ Pablo Neruda

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

~ Anton Chekhov

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

~ William Shakespeare

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

~ Hamlin Garland

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

~ Milton Avery

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

~ Hal Borland

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

~ Bear Grylls

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

~ Jason Statham

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

~ James Balog

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

~ Hope Davis

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

~ Shan Sa

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

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

~ Susanna Moore

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

~ Joanna Lumley

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

~ Jay Griffiths

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

~ Bob Hope

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

~ Gary Zukav

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

~ Jennifer Granholm

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

~ Brett Hoebel

We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.

~ Jade Jagger

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

~ Dylan Lauren

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

~ Richard Rogers

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

~ Jack Nicklaus

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

~ George Eliot

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

~ Caecilius Statius

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

~ Dōgen

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

~ D. Elton Trueblood