Home / Topics / Saplings Quotes

Saplings Quotes

Browse 20 quotes about Saplings.

Related topics

Saplings Quotes

“We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.”

Ifs Want Dies Tree Worried Ease Stressed Totality Saplings

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.”

Trouble Wind Edges Woods Snow Forests Thick Fleece Plies Saplings

Author:A. E. Housman

“Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.”

“They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.”

Way Giving Looks Rain Plant Forests Carbon Desirable Oxygen Bargains Carbon Dioxide Chopping Saplings

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.”

World Body Young Belief Growing Thrust Saplings

Book:Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development

Source: Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development

“I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.”

Hate Growth Tree Youth I Hate Green Rounds Prudence Spoil Clinging Sucker Ivy Saplings

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.”

Branches Blades Wot Saplings

Book:The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.”

Feels Young Sun Tree Strange Roots Skins Ancient Forests Giants Branches Rough Smooth Unseen Intuitive Bark Sap Overhead Saplings Smooth Skin

Author:Jane Goodall

“with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings with fresh vitality sends through human veins a creeping ecstasy of new life.”

Humans Inspiration Spirit Spring Ecstasy New Life Veins Vitality Saplings

Author:Marah Ellis Ryan

“I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.”

Grows Growing Up Tree Youth Paper Down And Heavy Spread Seeds Flexible Notebook Saplings

Author:Jill McCorkle

“Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.”

Running Tree Fool Forests Running Away Bark Forests And Trees Redwoods Primeval Plants And Trees Saplings Destroying The Earth

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.”

Waiting Groups Building Musician Tiny Establishment Composer Entrepreneurial Venues New Music Saplings

Author:David Edelstein

“The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.”

Needs Heart May Sometimes Dream Growth Space Environment Bigger Finding Yourself Pot Fulfilled Oaks Saplings Mighty Oaks

Author:Darren Hardy

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”

Giving Said Wanted House Grows Water Struggle Saws Nice Growing Tree Special Wind Mom Protect Tiny Tall Destroying One Time Old Trees Saplings

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds and saplings with an old chimney sticking up by itself...and here I look ahead to the resting of my case: I love the house that belonged to the chimney, holding it bright in memory, and love the saplings and the weeds.”

Looks Littles Remember House Memories Cases And Love Weed Patches Chimneys Saplings Memories And Love

Author:Wendell Berry

“A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.”

Needs Would Be Form Tree Discipline Protection Hindrance Criticise Saplings

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.”

Law Used Evil Doubt Stage Masters Discipline Bounds Rounds No Doubt Immature Saplings

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.”