Tree Quotes - 6
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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See howAurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet-slug-a-bed, and see The dew-bespangling herb and tree.
Robert Herrick— 1648 'Corinna's Going a Maying'.
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'The Garden' (published1681).
Don't wait for schools to be built. Teach the children under the nearest tree.
— 1995 Quoted by Rosalind Miles in'An Oxonian in Oman', in OxfordToday, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue,1995.
Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
edward abbey— "The Crooked Wood", p. 208
He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,He provideth a kindness for many generations,And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
henry van dyke— The Friendly Trees.
The bud is on the bough again,The leaf is on the tree.
charles jeffreys— The Meeting of Spring and Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.
samuel rutherford— P. 10. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Just as a tree cut down, that fellTo north, or southward, there it lies:So man departs to heaven or hell,Fix'd in the state wherein he dies.
Isaac Watts— Song 10: "Solemn Thoughts of God and Death".
dreamtree,truthtree tree of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial merely)existence,all when may not measure a now of your treasure
e. e. cummings— 90
There's alcohol in plant and tree. It must be Nature's plan That there should be in fair degree Some alcohol in Man.
a. p. herbert— Number Nine ([1951] 1952) p. 151.
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards … and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.
Nikos Kazantzakis— p. 434; in a few publications since 2008 part of this has been misattributed to Franz Kafka: "By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.
ramakrishna— p. 867 (Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960))
So let me fly please lead me and I'll follow you Above the clouds beyond the stormy sea I long to share a world of sweet contentment there In that bright land where grows the olive tree.
tom springfield— Song The Olive Tree
Trees and humans are in an intimate relationship. What they exhale, we inhale, what we exhale they inhale. This is a constant relationship that nobody can afford to break or live without. -Sadhguru (on Project GreenHands mass tree planting initiative)
jaggi vasudev— Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs , and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
— Bible, in The parallel New Testament: the Authorised version arranged in parallel ..., p.29
Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn How to accept a better in his turn.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 128.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste
solomon— Song of Solomon 2:3
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Youth and Age.
If I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upward into a multitude of techniques and theorems while its root drives into the depths, then it seems to me that the impetus of the root.
— Gottlob Frege, Montgomery Furth (1964) The Basic Laws of Arithmetic: Exposition Ofthe System. p.10
Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, The Beech-Tree's Petition.
a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
john keats— John Keats, Stanzas.
If you are not ready, and did not know what to do, it could hurt you in different ways. It could knock you down, hard, or throw you against a tree or a wall. It is such a big explosion, it can smash in buildings and knock signboards over, and break windows all over town, but if you duck and cover, like Bert [the Turtle], you will be much safer.
— Duck and Cover (1951), on protecting oneself from an atomic explosion
By the yawning tree in the twilight The King unbound his sword , Severed the harp of all his goods, And there in the cool and soundless woods Sounded a single chord. Then laughed ; and watched the finches flash, The sullen flies in swarm, And went unarmed over the hills, With the harp upon his arm...
— G. K. Chesterton, describing Alfred going incognito about England as a harpist, in The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), Book III : The Harp of Alfred
May the Children of the Stock of Abraham , who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
— George Washington, letter to the Hebrew congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790).
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
— Larry Wilde in The Merry Book of Christmas.
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe , blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
— Marcus Aurelius, in The thoughts of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, tr. by G. Long, p.103
God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled froma Blessed tree, anolivethat isneitherof the East nor of the West whose oil wellnigh would shine, even if no fire touched it; Light upon Light; (God guides to His Light whom He will). (And God strikes similitudes for men, and God has knowledge of everything.)
The Koran— Sura 24, l.35.
At three years old it [Palm tree] begins to bear long bunches of orange-coloured fruit , which, contrasting with the deep rich hue of the leaves, adds the charm of colour to that of gracefulness of form.
— Sophy Moody, in The Palm Tree, 1864, p.88-89
The apple cannot be stuck back on the tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller— Commenting on After the Fall (1964) in The Saturday Evening Post (1 February 1964)
