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Famous quotations about trees . . .
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be
loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do,
except walk? ~Alice
Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do
not expect to sit. ~Nelson
Henderson
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
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ~John
Muir
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
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
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
Save a tree. Eat a beaver.
~Author
Unknown
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia
eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth
Russell
As the poet
said, "only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so
hard to figure out how to get the bark off. ~Woody
Allen
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