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Quotes About Renewal

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
~ William Cowper
One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
~ David Ignatow
Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
~ Willa Cather
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
~ Ezra Pound
Carols of gladness ring from every tree.
~ Fanny Kemble
Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
~ Orson Welles
Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
~ Robert Frost
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
~ Joseph Joubert
"One impulse from a vernal wood
~ William Wordsworth
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
~ George Eliot
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
~ Wilfred Owen
When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
~ John Muir
From a withered tree, a flower blooms
~ Gautama Buddha
Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.
~ Sandra Postel
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
~ Philip Larkin
What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.
~ Rumi
All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
~ Laozi
How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?
~ Ross Spears
Those who plant trees plant hope.
~ Lucy Larcom
How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.
~ Rick Riordan
They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?
~ Rudyard Kipling