Tree Quotes - Page 51

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.

Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.

The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in.