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Quotes About Trees

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
~ William Shenstone
and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
~ Hunter S. Thompson
In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
~ Van Morrison
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.
~ Sharon Creech
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
~ Matsuo Basho
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
This feels good being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height.
~ Mitt Romney
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
~ William Carlos Williams
The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.
~ Mary Carolyn Davies
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.
~ Washington Irving
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
~ Robert Frost
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.
~ Ronald Reagan
We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.
~ Sadiq Khan
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.
~ Sam Keen
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.
~ Stephen Moyer
I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.
~ Stephenie Meyer
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree, ' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
~ Woody Allen
Trees are where Nature has simply begun
~ Will Advise
Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness
~ Munia Khan
If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.
~ Dorothy Hartley
...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain