Tree Quotes - Page 55

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

"One impulse from a vernal wood

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.