Trees Quotes

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.

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

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.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

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

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

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

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

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

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.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.