Friday, May 9, 2008

More Tree Quotes

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~ Bill Vaughn

If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~ Stephen Girard

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs, 1887

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. ~ William Blake

Why are there trees I never walk under
But large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. ~ Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938

There are rich counsels in the trees. ~ Herbert P. Horne

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind
Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
~ George Peele, David and Fair Bathsabe, 1599

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. ~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message

The best part of happiness is the pines. ~ Terri Guillemets

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~ Cree Indian Proverb

To heal mine aching moods,
Give me God's virgin woods.
~ Clinton Scollard

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. ~ Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning

Oaks are the true conservatives;
They hold old leaves till summer gives
A green exchange.
~ Roy Helton, Come Back to Earth

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~ American Proverb

Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees
Bending to counterfeit a breeze.
~ James R. Russell

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. ~ Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~ Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~ James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~ Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. ~ George William Curtis

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~ Osho

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? ~ Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~ Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ~ J.J. Furnas

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~ Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~ Author Unknown

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell

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