Tree Quotes - Page 4

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

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

Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

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.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

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.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

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

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.