Quotes by Tree I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories. J. California Cooper writingtreethinking Even monkeys fall out of trees. J. F. Lawton monkeystreefall We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better. J. B. Priestley applescomplainingtree A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies. J. Patrick Lewis apologytreebook A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies. J. Patrick Lewis apologytreebook You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. J. P. Morgan focustreeinspirational The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking. Isaac Asimov forevertreetwo Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. J. R. R. Tolkien walking-stickstreetravel Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them. Isaac Asimov cuttinghumanitytree While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree. J. D. Salinger guytreetwo Truthfully, he lives right next to the Sexy Tree and I think that's the only thing that bothers me about this whole situation. J.A. Redmerski sexytreethinking The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows. Jack Johnson glassestreewindow A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections. J. C. Ryle christianmaytree And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible. Jack Spicer treemeanthinking I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees. J. R. R. Tolkien springtreegiving If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down. Jack Canfield mattertreefall If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy. Jack Nicklaus designgolftree Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it. Jacob Grimm saidrosetree I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story. J. R. R. Tolkien detailstreewar I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating. Jack Nicholson feettreebird«4243444546474849505152»
