Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Sylvia Pankhurst

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Sylvia Plath

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

Rumi

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Tom Felton

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

Stephen Gardiner

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

Stephen Fry

What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

Sri Chinmoy

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.