Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah More

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

John Muir

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

John Steinbeck

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Martin Luther

The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

Martin Luther

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Martin Luther

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Mark Tobey

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

Emo Philips

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

Henry David Thoreau

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Henry David Thoreau

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Mary Stewart

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

Philip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;

John Ray

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

George Gaylord Simpson

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Sherwood Anderson

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)

Mircea Eliade

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

Mechai Viravaidya

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Mechai Viravaidya

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

Ronald Reagan

Trees cause pollution.

Ronald Reagan

More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

Stonewall Jackson

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

Monica Denise Brown

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

Peter Falk

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.