Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

Rita Dove

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

Timothy Leary

The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Saul Williams

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

Robin McKinley

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Samuel Rutherford

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

Robert Barry

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Ricki Lake

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

Tori Amos

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Robert Graves

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Robert Jordan

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Virginia Woolf

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

Virginia Woolf

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

William Blake

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

Weegee

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

Wangari Maathai

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

Wangari Maathai

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Wangari Maathai

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

William Cowper

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

Tyson Chandler

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

Tyra Banks

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

Ty Pennington

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

Horace

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Henry David Thoreau

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Henry David Thoreau

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Jacqueline Carey

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

George Harrison

All religions are branches of one big tree.

George Harrison

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

Jeremy Sumpter

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.