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Quotes About Trees

The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.
~ Haruki Murakami
Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
~ Sam Ewing
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.
~ Charles Dickens
The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall
~ Sara Coleridge
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He's as old as some trees.
~ Pat Burns
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.
~ Janisse Ray
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.
~ Mirabel Osler
Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.
~ John Lamb Lash
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.
~ Rick Hilles
I am a morning person...I love waking up, walking & reveling In the beauty of all the flowers and trees....while chugging a 5th of vodka!!! It could happen.
~ Judy Tenuta
I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
~ Ken Auletta
The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?
~ Adelaide Crapsey
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
~ Tom Petty
I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.
~ Joseph Bruce
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
~ Terry Pratchett
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
~ Alexander Pope
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.
~ Conan O'Brien
There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
~ Katy Lederer
Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
~ Henry David Thoreau