Tree Quotes
On roots, quiet places, and things we take for granted.
One quote describes selling a house in L.A. to move out to the high desert near Joshua Tree, trading city life for wide-open quiet. See more in our Life quotes.
I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Beautiful Quotes
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids...
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners....
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear...
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Family Quotes
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good...
I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching...
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
Fruit Quotes
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
I had a '69 Road Runner when I was a kid. I had it for 13 days, came home one day, and my parents were in the driveway. They said, 'Meet the new owner,' because they'd gotten phone calls about...
Life Quotes
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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Another simply notices a tree in the yard and realizes how easily we take trees for granted, forgetting they're as alive as we are. Pair this with our Beautiful quotes.
