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Quotes About Trees

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
~ Mike Lowry
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
~ Matsuo Basho
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
~ Thomas Merton
Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
~ John Muir
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
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.
~ Claude Debussy
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
~ Mary Oliver
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.
~ Wilhelm II
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.
~ Derrick Jensen
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
~ Ziggy Marley
Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.
~ Stonewall Jackson
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
~ Neal Bascomb
Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees.
~ William Johnson Cory
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
~ William Lawson
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
~ David Douglas
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.
~ Muriel Barbery
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
~ Ruskin Bond
They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.
~ Milton Berle
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.
~ Orhan Pamuk
As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.
~ Emily Carr
Forests are the lungs of our land.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
~ Jim Fowler
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
~ Richard Allen