Quotes about Trees
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
- Isabel Allende
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep," she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. "What nice dreams they must have!
- LM Montgomery
isn't it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath—pouf! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?a
- LM Montgomery
as time went on and autumn passed and winter came with its beautiful bare-limbed trees, and soft pearl-grey skies the were slashed with rifts of gold in the afternoons, and cleared to a jewelled pageantry of stars over the wide white hills and valleys around New Moon.
- LM Montgomery
I think, if ever any great sorrow came to me, I would come to the pines for comfort," said Anne dreamily.
- LM Montgomery
isn't it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath—pouf! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?
- LM Montgomery
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
- James A. Garfield
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
- Lewis Carroll
Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.
- 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.
- Dr. Seuss
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees - just as things grow in fast movies - I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
- Thomas Merton