Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Samuel Rutherford

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

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the 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.

W. S. Merwin

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

Zac Hanson

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Zac Hanson

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

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.

Washington Irving

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

William Boyd

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

William C. Bryant

The groves were God's first temples.

Walter Savage Landor

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

Walter Scott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Rick Riordan

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper

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.

Yann Martel

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

William O. Douglas

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

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

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Kurt Cobain

We can plant a house, we can build a tree

Louise Bourgeois

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

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.

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.