Tree Quotes - Page 56

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.