Quotes About Peace

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Trees indeed have hearts.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.