Tree Quotes - Page 28

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?