Tree Quotes - Page 76

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

I will always dance in the street.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look.

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.