Tree Quotes - Page 7

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree