Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Colin Mochrie

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Anne Lamott

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

Daniel Johns

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

Czeslaw Milosz

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

D. H. Lawrence

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

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

Douglas Adams

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Donald Knuth

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Don Young

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

Constantin Brancusi

Nothing can grow under big trees.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Clive Anderson

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Douglas Hyde

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hofstadter

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

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.

Alexander Pope

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Alexander Pope

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

Alexander Pope

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

E. O. Wilson

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Dorothy Richardson

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Dr. Seuss

I speak for the trees!

Dr. Seuss

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Dr. Seuss

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Dorothy Dunnett

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Donald Miller

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.