Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Henry Ward Beecher

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

John Knowles

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

John Knowles

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Kurt Cobain

We can plant a house, we can build a tree

Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Olive Schreiner

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

Octavia Butler

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Louise Bourgeois

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Jim Woodring

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

John Heywood

All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

Sidney Lanier

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.

Sidney Lanier

Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

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.