Quotes by Tree Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well? Jean Giraudoux oilgardentree As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom. Jean-Louis Gassee monkeystreepeople The tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human characters I don't know. So there is both something I know and something I don't know. And I put them together. Jean-Luc Godard togethertreecharacter The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees. Jay Leno oregonagencytree I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. Jean-Paul Sartre sleeptreewater O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, Jean Toomer landtreesweet It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty. Jeannette Walls struggletreegiving But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. Jeannette Walls silencetreegiving It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious. Jean de la Bruyere flowertreemen The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised. Henry David Thoreau feettreeart I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree. Jeff Lynne agetreethinking If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest. Jeff Koons drawingmissingtree Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together. Jean-Paul Sartre criticismtogethertree The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair. Jeffrey Eugenides hairtreemean An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others. Jeffrey Stepakoff applestreeorder Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind. Henry David Thoreau citiestreemen In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it. Henry David Thoreau gardenermaytree Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. Jennifer Granholm treemotivationalinspirational A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue. Jennifer Crusie sawsmothertree I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking. Jennifer Pharr Davis hikingtreetalking«4748495051525354555657»
