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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

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees. — Wilhelm II

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

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality. — Jodi Picoult

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. — Carl Sagan

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

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

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

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots. — Robert Bly

One cannot write poems about trees when the forest is full of police. — Bertolt Brecht

And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago. — Martin Amis

The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass. — David Foster Wallace

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. — Michael Ende

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

She walked home through the darkening glade, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and listened to her, and the mountains were glad. — Ruskin Bond

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men. — Kurban Said

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

The Druids held the trees as very sacred. — Enya

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

Camille's rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees. — Erik Larson

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

We know the tree will die someday but we plant it anyway. — Marty Rubin

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

I like horse farms. I like the idea of animals growing on trees. — Jarod Kintz

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. — Alice Walker

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

It often seemed that the trees were flu of people whispering
especially tonight. — Roddy Doyle

The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger. — Robert McCammon

The strong wind rises against the trees so they bend like girls washing their hair. — Lauren Groff

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

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist. — Elton John

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

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — Saigyo

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

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin

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

There's nothing that keeps it's youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth
— Ogden Nash

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

It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind. — Peter Levitt

People think people are in charge, but they're wrong; it's the trees. — Jandy Nelson

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

The trees part before her slender form and close in again behind me. The roads weave a vast labyrinth, and I am lost. — Shan Sa

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

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A.E. Housman

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

To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the land. — Sam Torode

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

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all. — John Keats

If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. — Wynn Bullock