Home / Topics / Tree Quotes

Tree Quotes

Browse 5296 quotes about Tree.

Tree Quotes

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!”

“The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.”

Running Earth Voice Sun Tree Bird Hot Environmental Cooling Mead Grasshoppers Hot Sun

Author:John Keats

“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.”

Years Running Courses Five Tree Fields Percent Ideals Years Ago Trials Five Years Nests Ratios Hawks Acres Timber Quails

Author:Rick Carlisle

“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

“We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.”

Thinking Want Littles Running House Fire Cutting Tree Consumerism Coal Overconsumption Build A Fire

Author:Will Rogers

“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

“I'm not meant to run around trees. I can't throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.”

Littles I Can Running Film Air Tree Sweet Arms Boring Cups Tea Twisted Quirky Irritating Cups Of Tea

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.”

Looks Running Tree Rivers Ethiopia

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.”

Running Kids Guy Race Tree Grew Grew Up Block Climbing Barefoot Running Race Climbing Trees

Author:Edie Falco

“You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Needs Feels Running Beautiful Poetry Class Doors Tree Fronts My Family Okay Clock Shakes Panic Buttons Leafs Feathers Flocks Collectors Tick

Author:Andrea Gibson

“It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.”

Firsts Running Grace Air Tree Sea Sweet Demand Spring Rivers Blue Fishes Boat Hills Ran Lakes Fishing Spokes Assertion Brooks Dummy

Book:Crocker's Hole: From

Source: Crocker's Hole: From

“I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.”

Home Running Next Stuff Tree Minutes Dog Exercise One Day Mountain Training Areas Weight Brilliant Hills Next Day My Dog Circuits Pull Ups Circuit Training Hills And Mountains

Author:Bear Grylls

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”

Running Behinds Morning Sun Tree Wall Red Stones Rising Silver Gray Chill November Cardinals Squirrels Stone Walls Scallops

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man”

Men Mean Persons Soul Running Sun Tree Flower Periods Solitude Streams Starks Sullen Turf Sentinels

Book:The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909

Source: The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909

“Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.”

Way Running Tree Structure Bunch Grass Pool Genes Good Way

Author:Mira Grant

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.”

Running Kids Space Tree Crazy Hair Grew Grew Up Farms Tangled Christmas Tree Tangled Hair

Author:Taylor Swift

“The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.”

Kind Has Beens Running Animal Fiction Tree Solutions Science Fiction Fishes Various All Kinds Code Eggs Passing Away Zoos Freezing

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.”

Giving Running Water Tree Humility Fruit Running Water

Book:The Interior Castle

Source: The Interior Castle

“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

“Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.”

Running Steps Tree Perspective Forests Again And Again Keep Running Old Trees

Author:Bill Crawford

“Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.”

Looks Helping Running Grows Tree Mirrors Practicals Muscles Help Me Twists Tense

Author:Jason Statham

“Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am the lump of coal in Mrs. Clinton's stocking, and she desperately hopes she does not run against me.”

Doe Bigs Running Tree Trump Clinton Coal Lumps Stockings Christmas Gift

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.”

Made Dream Running Born Wonder Rich Impossible Tree Possibility Losing Fingers Native Grandmother American Dream Terrified Affirmation Grandchildren Swedish Hacked Great Grandchildren

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a short-run solution now, and one that encourages and facilitates the transition to the long-run solution.”

Needs Long Running Energy Waiting Tree Solutions Clean Transition Long Runs Facilitate Clean Energy

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.”

World Running Opportunity Views Tree Effects Fields Ready Red Towns Profound Track Tiny Miles Exploration Dirt Patches Wheat Railroads Oklahoma Railroad Tracks Dirt Roads

Author:Chelsea Manning

“Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only monkeys who came down from the trees just recently. We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running.”

Thinking Running Universe Tree Painting Mathematics Most Amazing

Author:Freeman Dyson

“I was born in a little village in the south of Holland called Mierlo. It was great growing up in Mierlo. It's a lovely little town where you can run around in the streets and climb trees and all that stuff when you're a kid. Then, when you're a teenager, it's not so fun. But I moved to Paris when I was very young.”

Running Kids Fun Growing Up Tree Moved Lovely Teenager

Author:Lara Stone

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.”

Knows Kind Hard Running Kids Used Tree Climbing Bike Climbing Trees

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.”

Source: A New York Winter's Tale

“Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”

“So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.”

People Mind Bigs Running Mother Certain Strong Simple Tree Land Possibility Terrible Summer Window And Love Winter Familiar Muscles Bedroom Restless Fever Opposing Midwest Hardwood

Author:Annie Dillard

“In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)”