Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Archuleta

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

David Attenborough

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

David Lloyd George

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

David Lynch

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

Confucius

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Dave Eggers

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Dalai Lama

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

Dolly Parton

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

Amy Tan

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

Christy Mathewson

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

Ambrose Bierce

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Andrew Marvell

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Bob Dylan

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Eckhart Tolle

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Edward Ruscha

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Edwin Louis Cole

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.

Barbara Walters

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

Diane Duane

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

Daniel Handler

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.

Daniel Handler

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Elizabeth I

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

Charles Fort

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

Charles Bukowski

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Brenda Strong

I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.

Jane Goodall

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.