Tree Quotes

I never saw a discontented tree.

John Muir

He who plants a tree plants a hope.

Lucy Larcom

He who plants trees loves others beside himself.

Thomas Fuller

Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.

Katrina Mayer

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Linnaeus

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Rumi

One who plants a tree looks at tomorrow not today.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Kahlil Gibran

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Molière

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Spike Milligan

When spring comes the new growth pushes the dead leaves off the tree.

I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Thoreau

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Proverb

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Luke 6:43

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather

Gold is a luxury. Trees are necessities. Man can live and thrive without gold, but we cannot survive without trees.

Paul Bamikole

For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

Luke 6:44

I like to throw myself into an inviting chair in the green shade of a large tree with my books on a low table beside me.

Edna Walling

Who would deny that trees are beautiful. Trees are like people; alike in so many respects, but each so different, so varied, so singular, so strange.

Journal of Arboriculture

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Martin Luther King Jr

There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.

Ruth Ahmed

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Jeremiah 17:7-8

I remember running over the hills just at dawn one summer morning, and pausing to rest in the silent woods, saw, through an arch of trees, the sun rise over river, hill, and wide green meadows as I never saw it before. Something born of the lovely hour, a happy mood, and the unfolding aspirations of a child's soul seemed to bring me very near to God.

Louise May Alcott

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive ven to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them; and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments; and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away – not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers. One sees them passing through various stages, and at last, step by step, approaching death, which makes them look still more like ourselves. Hence the interest attaching to them is quite sufficient to arrest all minds and affect all hearts.

Humboldt

Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.

Ellen G White