Tree quotes
Trees
The groves were God's first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant (A Forest Hymn)
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau
The trees are God's great alphabet:Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a
shade tree. He doesn't eat much and doesn't read much, but listens well and is
a most gracious host. ~Astrid Alauda
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
~Kahlil Gibran
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a
man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses
hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs, 1887
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets
after them. ~Bill Vaughn
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~Stephen Girard
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green
thing which stands in their way. ~William Blake
Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public
good. ~Sara Ebenreck, American Forests
Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public
good. ~Sara Ebenreck, American Forests
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho