Quotes by category:Tree

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God by Rumi

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God

roots heart tree

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. by Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence.

tree littles beautiful

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

Rufus Wainwright

rules-and-regulations tree bird

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves... by Ruskin Bond

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

know-me knows tree

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

return tree hands

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cher... by Ruskin Bond

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

cherries made tree

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, by Rudyard Kipling

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,

Rudyard Kipling

sea tree littles

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow b... by Russell B. Long

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

Russell B. Long

humorous tree mean

The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.

bullshit humanity tree

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

couple home tree

The one I spend the most amount of time in is a Ford Galaxy, which my tour manager drives me around in and which I drive at the weekends. What I love about the Galaxy is the amount of space I get. I can get so much done in the back of it while we're on the road, it's like my mobile office! I've also got a Ford B-Max, which I'm a total evangelist about. It's got rear doors that slide. Now, I can't park, so those are the best things ever. You can park right up against a tree and still get out!

weekend office tree

They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

Rudyard Kipling

tree long thinking

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

falling-in-love eye tree

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a bett... by Russell Page

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

dream tree giving

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree. by Russell Stannard

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

Russell Stannard

mind tree talking

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

Russell M. Nelson

parent tree children

The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

agency air tree

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

flower home tree

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

blessing tree fall