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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

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun and the moon. — Amit Ray

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

Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen. — Ernie Els

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

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds ... — Rajneesh

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. — Alice Walker

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

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' — Laurie Halse Anderson

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think. — Isabel Lucas

We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again. — Robert Bly

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

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. — David Feherty

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart. — Jason Bateman

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. — Publilius Syrus

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

Have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind. — Susanna Clarke

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. — Rabindranath Tagore

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. — Diane Frolov

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. — Thich Nhat Hanh

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people ... " — Wallace Stevens

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? — Bertolt Brecht

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic. — Liam Gallagher

Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE.. — Kabir

Desert trees that don't grow up but grow gnarled and thick. Stunted and stubborn. Remind me of Bangley. They just refuse to die at any price. Some — Peter Heller

Spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout. — Tom Sutcliffe

This is how we grow: not up, but out, like trees
swelling to encompass all these stories, the promises and lies and bribes and habits. — Lauren Oliver

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb — Kim Wilde

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. — Ann Patchett

I'm sorry for him who cannot hear what the tall trees have to say. — Edgar A. Guest

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. — Gore Vidal

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

When you are a trailblazer you have many trees to cut down. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors? — Bertolt Brecht

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 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

To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward. — Laurell K. Hamilton

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

While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats. — Peter Saul

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. — Faith Baldwin

Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish — Munia Khan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees. — Bill Vaughan

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height. — Gottlob Frege

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees. — Vladimir Horowitz

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. — Anton Chekhov

Just as you won't enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won't even wait to learn from people you hate. — Israelmore Ayivor

Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any. — Larry McMurtry

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross. — Vance Havner

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

April days in Henrietta were quite often fair, tender things, coaxing sleeping trees to bud and love-mad ladybugs to beat against windowpanes. — Maggie Stiefvater

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves? — Sinan Antoon

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like. — Joanna Lumley

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees. — Jeffrey Eugenides

To catch affection, try being efficient by using a fishing net. You can't sit back and wait for romance to grow on trees. — Jarod Kintz

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

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth — Rabindranath Tagore

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

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

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

Where the stars arose, and twinkled and disappeared behind the great umbrageous trees before she went to bed. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. — Pericles

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

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

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

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

She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns — Anthony Marra

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

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

Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers. — Margaret Atwood

They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness — Catherynne M Valente

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be. — Jo Walton

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

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide. — David Mitchell

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world. — Russell Page

My favorite place to be is by the bay where the palm trees sway. — Janet Toole Lewis

Artificial trees, robot sofas,
Ignorant cars-
One Way Street to Heaven — Allen Ginsberg

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. — Theodore Roosevelt

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees. — Michelle Ryan

[ ... ] a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees. — Evelyn Waugh

He plants trees to benefit another generation. — Caecilius Statius

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods. — Rufus Wainwright

Sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the — Lemony Snicket

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree. — Roger Deakin

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees. — E.F. Schumacher

As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire. — Geraldine Brooks

The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them. — Mike Mullin

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 refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees. — Constantin Brancusi

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

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune. — Princess Shikishi

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees — Kishore Kumar

Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit. — Ramsey Campbell