Tree Quotes - Page 58

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.

Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No! In that emptiness all dualities dissolve: happy, unhappy, miserable, blissful - all dissolve. This is buddhahood. This is what happened under the bodhi tree to Gautam Siddhartha. He reached emptiness. Then everything is silent. You have gone beyond opposites. A master is to help you to go to your inner emptiness, the inner silence, the inner temple.

How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.