Quotes by Tree When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar. Phillip Adams grandpatreeyears It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can. Phillips Brooks prideselftree To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. Phyllis Bottome shadowtreethinking If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree. Philip Yancey doctrinelightningtree When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality. Pier Paolo Pasolini treerealitypeople They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph. Pierre-Auguste Renoir nymphstreebelieve We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees. Pietro Belluschi designtreebeautiful The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. Pink bullyingtreewind When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams. Pippa Middleton weekendtreechildren But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name. Pocahontas rocksnamestree Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." Plutarch fruitspeechtree The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees. Pliny the Elder snakesdragonstree But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life. Pope Benedict XVI sundaycrossestree The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. Plato philosophicaltreeanimal There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand. Prentice Mulford doetreelove My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead. Prince Charles threetreecountry Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off. Prince Charles airtreeworld In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune. Princess Shikishi mountainspringtree Trees are worth more alive than dead Prince rainforestalivetree We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted. Pythagoras rootsspringtree«8384858687888990919293»
