Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Gaylord Simpson

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Louis Sachar

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Emo Philips

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

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.

It will look like the tree and waterfall have been here together.

Neill Blomkamp

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

Neil Young

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Nhat Hanh

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Nhat Hanh

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

Jodi Picoult

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Jodi Picoult

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

P. L. Travers

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

P. G. Wodehouse

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

Matt Groening

I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

Masanobu Fukuoka

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

Mary Hunter Austin

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Pat Conroy

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Joseph Joubert

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Katherine Mansfield

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Nikki Sixx

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Mary McCarthy

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Nicholas Sparks

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Marilyn Ferguson

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Mikhail Gorbachev

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Publilius Syrus

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Leonardo da Vinci

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.