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Quotes About Trees

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.
~ Opal Whiteley
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.
~ Prentice Mulford
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
~ Quentin Crisp
To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.
~ John Muir
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
~ Imran Khan
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
~ Dorothy Richardson
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
~ Hermann Hesse
Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
~ Douglas Adams
Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes.
~ Joost van den Vondel
The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
~ Anne Sexton
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
~ Carl Sagan
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
~ Winston Churchill
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
~ Billie Letts
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
~ Wayne Huizenga
Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.
~ John Remsburg
When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
~ Alain Ducasse
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
~ Vincent de Paul
When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.
~ Norman Reedus
Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.
~ Ogden Nash
But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell