Quotes About Respect

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

I love a tree more than a man.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

I love trees I have this thing for trees and the colors & changing of leaves. I love it I respect these kinds of things.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

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.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?