Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Alcaeus

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Aldo Leopold

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

Aldo Leopold

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

Adam Ross

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

Alexander Smith

Trees are your best antiques

Andrew Marvell

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Liam Gallagher

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

Le Corbusier

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Anton LaVey

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

Anne Lamott

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

Daniel Johns

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

Czeslaw Milosz

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

D. H. Lawrence

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

Alexander Pope

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Alexander Pope

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

Alexander Pope

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

E. O. Wilson

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Dorothy Richardson

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Dr. Seuss

I speak for the trees!

Dr. Seuss

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Dr. Seuss

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Dorothy Dunnett

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Donald Miller

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Dalai Lama

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

Dolly Parton

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

Christy Mathewson

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

Douglas Adams

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Donald Knuth

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Don Young

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?