Trees quotes

Discover a beautiful collection of inspiring quotes about trees for nature lovers and tree huggers. Explore the wisdom and serenity these majestic creatures offer through meaningful words.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

- Naomi Watts

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

- Paul Tillich

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

- Anna Freud

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

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

- Charles Lyell

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

- Mark Tobey

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

- Dave Barry

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

- Edward Steichen

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

- Winston Churchill

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.

- David Jones

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

- Andres Segovia

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

- John Muir

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

- Tiger Woods

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

- Bob Hope

Trees are your best antiques.

- Alexander Smith

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

- Natalia Ginzburg

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

- Chanakya

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

- Michael Fish

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

- Morihei Ueshiba