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Quotes About Tree

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.
~ Dr. Seuss
Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.
~ Yukihiro Matsumoto
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
~ Gautama Buddha
I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
~ Wendell Berry
I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.
~ Christy Mathewson
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
~ Dogen
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
~ Robert Macfarlane
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
~ Heinrich Heine
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.
~ Henryk Skolimowski
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
~ Martial
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
~ Hosea Ballou
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
~ Richard Bach
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
~ John Muir
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
~ Willa Cather
And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
~ John Milton
The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless.
~ Unknown
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.
~ Ben Hecht
A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.
~ Jay Leno