Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Harry Nilsson

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'

J. P. Morgan

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

J. K. Rowling

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

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.

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.

Publilius Syrus

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

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.

Frank Herbert

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Jesse Ventura

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Margaret Atwood

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Margaret Atwood

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

Marc Bolan

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

James Dickey

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.

Janet Evanovich

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

Horace

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Henry David Thoreau

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Henry David Thoreau

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

James Boswell

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Jakob Nielsen

What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.