Quotes about Trees
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- Toni Morrison
I must confess, though, that I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals. I think I exercise tremendous restraint in this, but my editor says, 'Would you stop this beauty business.' And I say, 'Wait, wait until I tell you about these ants.
- Toni Morrison
You don't know what heat is until you cross the border from Texas to Louisiana in the summer. You can't come up with words that catch it. Trees give up. Turtles cook in their shells. Describe that if you know how.
- Toni Morrison
Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.
- Jack Kerouac
I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
- CS Lewis
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
- Ronald Reagan
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
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
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.
- Neill Blomkamp
And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the LORD, to glorify Him. Isaiah 61:3
- Beth Moore