Best Tree Quotes On Success In Life
These tree quotes will inspire you. Tree is a long-lived woody plant that has a single usually tall main stem with few or no branches on its lower part. Trees are most essential to human survival yet we ignore the truth. Plant more trees, save the environment.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging tree quotes, tree sayings, and tree proverbs.
Famous Tree Quotes
- “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” ~ Alice Walker
- “Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.” ~ Irenaeus of Lyons
- “A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.” ~ Anton Chekhov , Tree quotes about life
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“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” ~ Lois Lowry
- “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” ~ Amelia Earhart
- “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” ~ Hermann Hesse
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“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “Walkin’ through the leaves fallin’ from the trees, Feelin’ like a stranger nobody sees.” ~ Bob Dylan
- “What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down” ~ Gautama Buddha
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“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.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” ~ John Muir
- “Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “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
- “If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” ~ Hal Borland
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“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.” ~ John Muir
- “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” ~ Joyce Kilmer
- “When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.” ~ Wangari Maathai , Plant a tree quotes
- “Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.” ~ Rumi
- “The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ~ William Blake
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“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” ~ Dolly Parton
- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. … Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.” ~ Ming-Dao Deng
- “Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.” ~ Gaston Bachelard
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“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” ~ Marcus Garvey
- “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” ~ John Muir
- “When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” ~ Paul Cezanne
- “The best friend of earth of man is the tree.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Forests are the lungs of our land.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.” ~ Mantak Chia
- “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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.” ~ Rajneesh
- “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ~ John Muir
- “A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.” ~ George Nakashima
- “How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.” ~ Satish Kumar
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“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” ~ George Washington Carver
- “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.” ~ John Muir
- “We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “He who plants kindness gathers love.” ~ Saint Basil , Tree quotes love
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“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.” ~ Karle Wilson Baker
- “The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.” ~ Jane Austen
- “A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense…. [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs – out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time – chant, not of the past only, but of the future.” ~ Walt Whitman
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“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” ~ Willa Cather
- “Trees are your best antiques” ~ Alexander Smith
