Tree Quotations | Page 5

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

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.

We have a pretty extensive tree trimming program. We try to be prepared by trimming areas that might be potential problems.

You're a sword not a palm tree

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

The plans do not call for a tree in the wall. We're going to send somebody out to look at this.

There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....

Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride, Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

Most people don't realize that we have mosquitoes year-round. The winter varieties, known as tree stump mosquitoes, lay eggs in tree stumps that then fill with water. But this year they aren't limited to finding water pools inside rotting stumps. They can be anywhere with all this rain.

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

My first role was a tree at the Fox Theatre in Aurora in the Wizard of Oz .

One of the things is to break stereotypes of what an environmentalist is. When I was growing up it was seen as weird, tree huggers.

One of the things I'll ask for in the future is that we have a deeper (contact) tree on the next of kin for all of our employees, so we have more ways to get in touch with them.

One boulder was stuck in a tree -- the size of a car engine.

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

One tree can make 300 pounds of fruit.

My daughter called during the storm and said a tree had fallen on the house but everyone was OK . . . and then, nothing for 24 hours.

My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

Now that they have decided to not come so close to personal property, I don't think any of us in Grandview have as many issues to discuss with the developer. As long as the creek remains within its nature bed and as long as the tree cover and wood remain intact, the majority of our complaints have been answered.

Right now, at least they're doing the cleanup. That's very necessary. They're pulling out the tree from the sinkhole.

Right away that raises a red flag with me when you say you are limiting tree removal. I wasn't aware there would need to be any tree removal. Have any comments come back from the G.L.E.N. Committee?

My uncle works in the prison, so he's still there and he said a lot of the houses are straight. My sister's house had a tree fall on it, but it didn't do too much damage. It's nothing we can't rebuild. You can't replace a life, but you can replace the houses and the fences.

Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.

I was hanging onto that tree and I prayed. Dude, I prayed so good I thought I might become a preacher.

I would hate to see a tree come down on a little kid ---- a little child ---- all because we didn't make the right choice up here.

I don't know what tree we're barking up,

I don't care who you are or what business you are in, you don't give a guy his pink slip and make it get there when's standing in front of his Christmas tree taking a family photo with his child in his hands.

I had just parked my car and was standing across the street, watching the tree sway. Then one of my neighbors yelled at me to run, and it came down pretty much in front of me.

I didn't have any business being over there. I was right next to a root and should have just chipped it out sideways. I tried to hit it low enough to get around the root, but it just popped up, hit the tree and went into the creek.

I can't go anywhere until I finish this Christmas album, ... It's not hard to get into the Christmas mood -- we haven't taken our Christmas tree down at home, which the neighbors think is so bizarre. And it is. But this is a jazz Christmas album, so I don't have to be too traditional or mind too many rules. That's what's pulling me along.

From where we're standing to the house was about ten feet. I'd say nine or ten feet of debris. 'Cause we were climbing close to the knot on that tree up there.

If it's worth cutting a tree for, it's worth doing right.

I got a good bounce it hit the side of a tree and came out to the corner of the fairway. I hit a perfect 6-iron that almost went in. Those are the eagle putts you think you can make.

He's got unbelievable vision on the ice. He reads the play so well and he's so hard to knock off the puck. He's got legs like tree trunks. For his size he's very strong.

He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.

We're probably going to have a tree planted during the course of the day, but this event is planned as a daylong affair that should offer something for all of our citizens.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root

What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.

Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.

Golden Tree Academy is more traditional in nature, being a pre-college preparatory school and dedicated to serving the needs of bright to gifted students.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Humans plant every tree and flower they can, ... They make gardens everywhere.

He could not live without adversaries, no more than a tree can live without soil; like mangrove trees, which make their own soil, he could create enemies from within himself.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

Just pick you out a tree to stand under. I usually stay here pretty close to the truck. They don't seem to mind that.

It appears that Thompson was carried down the hill where he struck a tree and was buried in approximately 30 inches of snow.

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

It could have been a lot worse. The tree service worked for five hours tying the tree so they could cut it down, but some of the rope just came loose.

IT is pleasing to frequent the places from which the feet of those whom this world calls great have passed away, to see the same groves and streams that they saw, to hear the same sabbath bells, to linger beneath the roof under which they lived, and be shaded by the same tree which shaded them.

I think we seem to concentrate on preparing kids for college. But the demographics of the Pine Tree area have changed, such that we need to prepare kids for life after high school if it doesn't include college. That's vocational training. I think that's very important, something we need to pay more attention to.

It gets the parents committed so they don't book their child's birthday party on the day we're going to Tree Tops Park.

I think we can now safely respond to those who complain that there are those who really do want a Christmas tree in the center of downtown Kewanee.

It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be.

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

I was very upset when I found the tree in that condition, damaged by the storm. But now it's alive again.

I want to visit my parents graves and see the cherry tree blossom in Japan again.

I think the U.S. needs to keep up the pressure on the Nigerian government to pay attention to these people, and do something about their poor conditions. Because I honestly, truly believe these people will fight till death. And there's going to be one behind every tree from now on.

I saw a white T-shirt and a blond head on the other side of the tree and honked the horn for about 10 seconds,