Why are there trees I never walk under but large and
melodious thoughts descend upon me?

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
Denise Levertov

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!”

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

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

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

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

Do not be afraid to go out on a limb … That’s where the fruit is.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats.
Woody Allen

Sometimes Thou may’st walk in Groves,
which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
Jack Handey

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth,
the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

The groves were God’s first temples.
William Cullen Bryant

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

Trees are your best antiques.
Alexander Smith

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
Welsh Proverb

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

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

Women are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The men don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don’t want to get hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren’t so good but easy. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top becuase they value quality.

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier

See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.
Wilson Flagg

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

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 all travel the milky way together, trees and men… trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings – many of them not so much.
John Muir

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
David Douglas

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.

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
Mike Lowry

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

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

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
Wilfred Owen

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.
J.Lubbock

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
Henry Ward Beecher

Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees.
Rajendra Prasad

Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn’t eat much and doesn’t read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host.
Astrid Alauda

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
E. Y. Harburg

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods -
Robert Frost

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
Chinese Proverb

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
James Russell Lowell

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Alfred Russel Wallace

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

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

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
Harold Edward Holt

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughn

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins

If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.
Stephen Girard

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Elliott Smith

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
Kenzaburo Oe

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way.
William Blake

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.
Sara Ebenreck

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

Why are there trees I never walk under
But large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
Herodotus

There are rich counsels in the trees.
Herbert P. Horne

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind
Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
George Peele, David & Fair Bathsabe

We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.
Everett Mamor

The best part of happiness is the pines.

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

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland

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

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
Horizon, “Electronic Frontier”

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
James G. Watt

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

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
George William Curtis

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

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

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J.J. Furnas

Even trees do not die without a groan

Climb a tree – it gets you closer to heaven.

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.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

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 on.
Woody Allen