Quotes by category:Tree

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

shelter tree giving

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Edwin Louis Cole

fruit literature tree

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

Edwin Way Teale

dollars tree bird

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousan... by Edwin Way Teale

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Edwin Way Teale

tree morning years

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

Edwidge Danticat

sacrifice tree school

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

Edwin Way Teale

nature tree beautiful

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

stressed ease tree

When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

flower tree add

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms,... by Eleanor of Aquitaine

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

fruit tree inspirational

Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.

Elisabeth Murdoch

care garden tree

I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.

islamic religious tree

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

Elizabeth Bowen

growing-up anger tree

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Elizabeth David

tree food morning

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tree littles men

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tre... by Elizabeth George Speare

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

Elizabeth George Speare

pity tree children

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

Elizabeth Gaskell

flower tree sweet

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the... by Elizabeth I

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

substance deeds tree

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

ashes falling-in-love tree

All changes pass me like a dream, by Elizabeth Siddal

All changes pass me like a dream,

Elizabeth Siddal

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a techn... by Elle Casey

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.

hug technique tree