Tree Quotes - Page 12

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

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

I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!