113 Best Quotations About Trees

1- The trees are God's great alphabet:With them He writes in shining greenAcross the world His thoughts serene.~Leonora Speyer

2- You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. ~Denise Levertov

3- I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir

4- Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes"

5- God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir

6- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913

7- Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. ~Woody Allen

8- If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey

9- I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a tree.Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,I'll never see a tree at all.~Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933

10- The groves were God's first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant, "A Forest Hymn"

11- Trees are your best antiques. ~Alexander Smith

12- 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. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir

13- A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb

14- For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther

15- There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~Minnie Aumonier

16- It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. ~Wilson Flagg

17- And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare

18- We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much. ~John Muir, Scribner's Monthly, November 1878

19- The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

20- Alone with myselfThe trees bend to caress meThe shade hugs my heart.~Candy Polgar

21- Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

22- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

23- He who plants a tree

Plants a hope.~Lucy Larcom, "Plant a Tree"

24- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903

25- Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~J. Lubbock

26- 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

27- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong.

We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. ~Henry Ward Beecher

28- 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. ~Terri Guillemets

29- The trees that have it in their pent-up budsTo darken nature and be summer woods -~Robert Frost

30- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb

31- 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

4- 32- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

33- 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

34- If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~Stephen Girard

35- Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928

36- 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

37- Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. ~Sara Ebenreck, American Forests

38- Why are there trees I never walk underBut large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

39- The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. ~Author Unknown, quoted in

Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938

40- There are rich counsels in the trees. ~Herbert P. Horne

41- God in the whizzing of a pleasant windShall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.~George Peele, David and Fair Bathsabe, 1599

42- The trees are whispering to me, reminding me of my roots, and my reach... shhhhhh... can you hear them? Selflessly sharing their subtle song. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

43- The best part of happiness is the pines. ~Terri Guillemets

44- Only when the last tree has died and the last

river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

45- To heal mine aching moods,Give me God's virgin woods.~Clinton Scollard

46- Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. ~Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning

47- Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ~John Muir

48- If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland

49- It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. ~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message

50- Oaks are the true conservatives;They hold old leaves till summer givesA green exchange.~Roy Helton, Come Back to Earth

51- A tree never hits an automobile except in self

defense. ~American Proverb

52- Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed treesBending to counterfeit a breeze.~James R. Russell

53- Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. ~Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939

54- Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"

55- They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

56- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who

understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848

57- A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. ~George William Curtis

58- 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

59- I hear the wind among the trees

60- Playing the celestial symphonies;I see the branches downward bent,Like keys of some great instrument.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

61- Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? ~Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968

62- You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

63- Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844

64- Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ~J.J. Furnas

65- I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all dayAnd lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in Summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914

66- Climb a tree - it gets you closer to heaven. ~Author Unknown

67- We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~Author Unknown

68- Save a tree. Eat a beaver. ~Author Unknown

69- Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell

70- As the poet said, "only God can make a tree" -

probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen

71- "I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

72- "Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects."- Proverb from Guinea

73- "Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

74- "God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" "- Joseph Campbell

75- "Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root."- Malay proverb

76- "Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come."- Chinese proverb

77- "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."- Willa Cather (1873-1947), O Pioneers 1913

78- "Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is."- Anonymous

79- "Sometimes Thou may'st walk in Groves, which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul."- Thomas Vaughan, Anima Magica Abscondita

80- "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."- Jack Handey

81- "Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity."- Susan Fenimore Cooper

82- "The groves were God's first temples." - William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn

83- "From a fallen tree, all make kindling."- Spanish proverb

84- "If a tree dies, plant another in its place."- Linnaeus

85- "A tree falls the way it leans."Bulgarian Proverb

86- "And see the peaceful trees extendtheir myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloudupon the fountain of their veins."- Kathleen Raine, Envoi

87- "Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another."- Shirley Ann Grau

88- "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

89- "Alone with myselfThe trees bend to caress meThe shade hugs my heart"- Candy Polgar

90- "Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."- Khalil Gibran

91- "In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak."- James Russell Lowell

92- "When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?"- Seneca

93- "Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total." - Rada and Forsyth, Machine Learning

94 -"What kind of times are they, whenA talk about trees is almost a crimeBecause it implies silence about so many horrors?"- Bertolt Brecht, To Those Born Later

95- "One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the ages can."- William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned

96- "A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense."- Author Unknown

97- "A garden without trees scarcely deserves to be called a garden."- Henry Ellacombe

98- "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."- Warren Buffett

99- "The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

100- "Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit."- John Fowles

101- "Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."- J. Willard Marriott

102- "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree

is the real thing."- Abraham Lincoln

103- "Woodman, spare that tree!Touch not a single bough!In youth it sheltered me,And I'll protect it now."- General George P. Morris

104- "My lilac trees are old and tall;I cannot reach their bloom at all.They send their perfume over treesAnd roof and streets, to find the bees."- Lousie Driscoll, 1875 - 1957, My Garden Is a Pleasant Place

105- "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."- William Blake, Proverbs of Hell, 1790

106- "A man does not plant a tree for himself, he plants it for posterity."

107- "Trees enrich our lives throughout the year. They reassure us with the rustle of their leaves, give us shade to soothe our overheated bodies and they bring delight to us when we watch birds nest in their boughs. However, it is only during the fall that they wave flamboyant foliage that seems to demand our attention."- Blue Ridge Parkway: A Guide to Trees

108- "Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep,The living leaves recoil before our fires,Baring to us war-charred and broken branches,And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep." - Kathleen Raine, London Trees

109- "There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."- Minnie Aumonier

110 "What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?" - Pablo Neruda

111 - "I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound."- Louise Bogan, 1898-1970

112- "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."- John Muir

113- Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."- Martin Luther (1483-1546)