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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
— William Arthur Ward
We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.
— Sam Lipsyte
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
— Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Let there be learning, even under the shade of trees.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
The woods are beautiful. They're my friends, the trees, and I can feel them smiling down at me. I
— Laurie Forest
And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.
— Daniel Arsand
It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
— Luigi Orione
All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
— Charles De Lint
Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees. [Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.] — Thomas Jackson
I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
— Toni Morrison
Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. — Rudyard Kipling
I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.
— Isabel Lucas
The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.
— David Foster Wallace
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
— Alain Ducasse
There are rich counsels in the trees.
— Herbert P. Horne
In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees.
— David Nicholls
We are made up of the same atoms and the same light signals as are exchanged between pine trees in the mountains and stars in the galaxies.
— Carlo Rovelli
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
— Anna Freud
It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
— Guy Gavriel Kay
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
— Marcel Proust
The palm trees on the median swayed and bent, threatening to snap. But they wouldn't. They were strong enough to take it. And so was I. — Michelle Hodkin
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
— William H. Whyte
We were like trees with nowhere to sink our roots, Joseph and I. Instead of finding the ground we wound them around each other.
— Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Few people realize this, but cutting down the trees is one of the things that keeps us Malawians poor.
— William Kamkwamba
I love you as big as the ocean and all its fishes. As big as the sky and all its birds. As big as the earth and all her trees.
— Susan Abulhawa
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. — Mahmoud Darwish
If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.
— Andrew Miller
I wonder about the trees.Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place? — Robert Frost
I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his
— Carrie Fisher
When the axe entered the forest, the trees said to each other: do not worry, the handle in that axe is one of us.
— Amish Tripathi
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
Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit.
— Ramsey Campbell
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
— Rabindranath Tagore
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
— Daniel Woodrell
Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell.
— Ramesh Menon
The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened,
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Where the stars arose, and twinkled and disappeared behind the great umbrageous trees before she went to bed.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth
— Rolf Peterson
The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.
— Robert McCammon
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
— Jonathan Lethem
Halt looked up at the trees above him."Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees.
Naturally, they didn't answer. — John Flanagan
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people ... "
— Wallace Stevens
Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets. — Suman Pokhrel
The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
— Aimee Bender
Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
I'm sorry for him who cannot hear what the tall trees have to say.
— Edgar A. Guest
Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.
— Charles Martin
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
— Michael Pollan
The smells, the shadows, even the dappled pale trunks of the plane trees lifted my spirits
— Donna Tartt
To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.
— Gerald Jonas
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
— Sylvia Plath
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Ere, in the northern gale,The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on. — William C. Bryant
someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
— Alfred Austin
Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.
— Ged Thompson
They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
— Catherynne M Valente
A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air.
— Sebastian Junger
Read with the mind-set of a carpenter looking at trees.
— Terry Pratchett
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.
— Michael Dolan
She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns
— Anthony Marra
The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.
— David Mitchell
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
— Henri Michaux
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.
— Christina Rossetti
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
— George Perkins Marsh
My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.
— Shailene Woodley
