348 Tree Quotes: Rooted Wisdom & Growth

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R.R. Martin

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.” – Amit Kalantri

A forest full of trees is as important and valuable as a mine full of gold.” – Paul Bamikole

Tree Quotes

A forest is green for a reason.” – Anthony T. Hincks

A forest tree cannot help a lonely tree in its battle for existence, because such a battle requires the knowledge of loneliness!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.” – Theodore Roosevelt

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.” – Adlai E. Stevenson

A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.” – Alexander Smith

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

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” – Roman Payne

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” – Unknown

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek Proverb

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.” – Edna Ferber

A strong wind was blowing and it felt really very cold and seemed so unfamiliar and bizarre. But the trees remembered me. They bowed gently in the breeze…and called me nearer, welcoming me.” – Debalina Haldar

A tree falls the way it leans.” – Bulgarian proverb

A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance.” – Wangari Maathai

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world” – Munia Khan

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Basil

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.” – George Nakashima

A tree torn from its roots dies, a man begins to live.” – Marty Rubin

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.” – George William Curtis

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” – John Madison

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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.” – Hal Borland

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.” – Aldo Leopold

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.” – Deborah Levy

All forests in the world need to be given the same name, so that people can understand that there is only one forest in the world and that every burning forest is his own forest, no matter where in the world!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

All our wisdom is stored in the trees.” – Santosh Kalwar

All trees and birds sky and stars bosoms and bangles were seeing everything.” – Suman Pokhrel

Alone with myself the trees bend to caress me the shade hugs my heart” – Candy Polgar

Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism.” – Sir David Attenborough

And I spent a wonderful summer, below the trees in Godavari, writing my poetry!” – Avijeet Das

And the forest perfume — trees and earth — it’s like incense in a shrine. You fall into a state of… prayer.” – Keiichi Sigsawa

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.” – Suzy Kassem

Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” – Shira Tamir

Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.” – Guinea proverb

As soon as you plant a tree a day. Really, you leave doctors away! But rest a week, Oh, do so like a geek. Right then you surely enrich your way!” – Ana Claudia Antunes

As the branches of the trees swayed. I stopped at the grass and laid. A different symphony played out in the woods.” – Suyasha Subedi

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.” – Chico Mendes

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.” – Sri Chaitanya

Be like tree, it grows every day.” – Samuel Clément

Be still within a forest and you will appreciate what it is like to be a tree,” – Anthony T. Hincks

tree quotes about life

Believe me, for I know, you will find something far greater in the woods than in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you cannot learn from the masters.” – Bernard of Clairvaux

below the trees in the woods i while away time writing poetry” – Avijeet Das

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we’re essentially identical to trees.” – Carl Sagan

Children treat things as if money grew on trees. Adults treat the environment as if trees grew from money.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Come to the woods, for here is rest.” – John Muir

Develop a high level of understanding of trees and you will be able to transfer that knowledge into human health.” – Steven Magee

Each tree is like a soul opening out to nature, and thus appreciate tiny saplings and mighty oaks alike.” – Unknown

Earth stays in joy When we plant a tree Beneath the ground, oh, boy! Roots feel free” – Munia Khan

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.” – Alexander Pope

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

Every bird, every tree, every flower reminds me what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive.” – Marty Rubin

Everybody loves the fall season; I know you’ll agree,

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” – Martin Luther

For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, I’ll consider it.” – Jandy Nelson

For trees, who see so much sorrow, so much anger, so much desperation, know love for the rare wonder of it, so they are champions of it and will do whatever they can to help it along its way.” – Kathi Appelt

forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence.” – Sabrina Elkins

Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and bark which brace mankind…A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it…” – Henry David Thoreau

Giant gold snowflakes Now the Trees are bare” – Richard L. Ratliff

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” – John Muir

God’s gift to the world are the Trees, Sun, and Mountains” – Roland R Kemler

Gold is a luxury. Trees are necessities. Man can live and thrive without gold, but we cannot survive without trees.” – Paul Bamikole

Golden brown syrup light pranced upon his melancholy face. The flickering was somewhat surreal.” – Ben Ditmars

tree quotes about family

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.” – Thomas S Monson

Gradually the winds became more frequent and aggressive, forcing the trees to abandon their leaves that passed over me like pixies venturing into the night on wild stallions.” – Kirsty Louise Farley

He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.” – Tracy Chevalier

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.” – Henry Van Dyke

He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.” – Lucy Larcom

Here, she curled up in a tight ball and waited, purred to her unborn babies. And the trees, the tall and kindly trees, watched over her while she slept, slept the whole night through.” – Kathi Appelt

How beautiful is God’s Garden and yet most people don’t see it.” – Roland R Kemler

How beautiful leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burrough

How could you not be hopeful if you’ve got a tree around?” – Ross Spears

How peaceful to be a tree! Trees had only to grow. Trees had no hearts to confuse and complicate things. Trees could not love kings and still disobey them.” – Kiersten White

I enjoy many types of music, but to my ears, there’s none more soothing or calming than the music a tree makes as wind passes through its leaves.” – Laurie Buchanan

I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.” – Louise Dickinson Rich

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

I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people.” – Marge Piercy

I followed the footprints until they stopped in front of a very old mysterious tree – a grandfather tree” – James Barbato

I guess it’s the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they’re strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.” – Lauren Oliver

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” – Willa Cather

I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do.” – Richard Siken

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.” – Rodney Dangerfield

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.” – Sharon Creech

I think of trees as my extended family, living, breathing and social, like us.” – Dame Judi Dench

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.” – Ogden Nash

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.” – Mary Cassatt

I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky with no boundaries.” – Lea Doué

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.” – Czesław Miłosz

I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.” – Orhan Pamuk

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.” – Maggie Stiefvater

tree quotes about love

If I were to die this is where I want my life to end in a forest where my soul can find peace.” – Roland R Kemler

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.” – Lao Tzu

if love was a tree I’d plant you a forest” – Dahi Tamara Koch

If only we wait on God’s timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.” – Tracy Chevalier

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.” – Amit Kalantri

If we say no to plastic bags, it will save millions of people down the line.” – Amit Ray

If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going.” – Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to conquer pain, anxiety and stress in life, make it a point to visit great trees often and make a connection with them.” – Banani Ray

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” – Hal Borland

Ill trees are mostly fruitless, and when rarely fruitful, their fruits are uneatable.” – Ahmed Alibage

Im that tree who is alone and the most greener compared to those brown forest” – Pratyush Singh

In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass through them without damage.” – Steven Magee

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” – Paulo Coelho

In a street without any trees, birds represent the trees in the name of nature!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

In ever defeat there is a seed of success, just waiting to sprout.” – Amit Ray

In great civilizations, there lived great men and women. There also lived great animals and trees.” – Rajesh

In the wind that ruffles through the trees I can find thoughts of you whispering to me” – Richard L. Ratliff

In this existence real are the trees” – Gwen Calvo

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.” – Wilson Flagg

It takes sharper axes to chops bigger trees just as it takes deeper enthusiasm to overcome stronger challenges. Timidity only increases your fears.” – Israelmore Ayivor

I’d sooner worship a tree than a man or a god.” – Marty Rubin

I’ll tell you a story, far, far from here where blades of grass are fluent in sentient knowledge and trees are a mandala of prayer.” – Carolyn Riker

I’m aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not.” – Jessica Francis Kane

I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kindhearted.” – Andrea Koehle Jones

I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.” – Andrea Koehle Jones

I’m such a fan of nature, and being with the trees every day fills me with joy.” – Scott Blum

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

tree quotes about death

Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to the uneducated, medicine to the sick, and trees and cleanliness to the environment.” – Amit Ray

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” – Unknown

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland

Land forests are the coral reefs of the ocean of air.” – Steven Magee

Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves.” – Tasneem Hameed

Leaves fall, not for the heck of it, but for the hell of it!” – Anthony T. Hincks

leaves still cling to the trees, but the sun is telling them to drop dead.” – Mary Flanagan

Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees.” – unknown

Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of bright torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw

Like a tree I have stood my ground Not fallen.” – Ben Ditmars

Like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” – Suzy Kassem

Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.” – Cristen Rodgers

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,’ she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. ‘What nice dreams they must have!” – L.M. Montgomery

Listen to the trees to learn their secrets.” – Steven Magee

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.” – Rumi

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” – Victor Hugo

Love is like encountering a forest and having to chop down every tree but one. Oh, and you have to chop down each tree by hugging it until it falls.” – Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg

Lying on a soft bed of moss viewing the cobalt blue sky painted with thick impastoed layers of clouds framed sumptuously with swaying trees and dancing leaves is the best way to view nature’s museum.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

money will grow trees, but love shall be the water that they need.” – Anthony T Hincks

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” – Albert Schweitzer

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.” – George Bernard Shaw

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.” – Wangari Maathai

Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.” – Henry Ward Beecher

Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.” – J.K. Rowling

Old trees want to hurt you. It doesn’t matter if you’re snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, or just taking a walk in the woods. Old trees want to hurt you, and I think they’d kill you if they could.” – Stephen King

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” – W.S. Merwin

Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree’s only friend in a hostile world.” – Hope Jahren

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” – Thomas Fuller

tree quotes about friendship

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare

Only a city lost among the trees is a real city!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Outside, the trees do their witchy dance.” – August Kleinzahler

People decided that trees have no feelings” – Will Advise

People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.” – Bryce Nelson

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.” – Martin O’Malley

She understood the language of the trees. She spoke to the trees and they spoke back to her!” – Avijeet Das

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.” – Lynn Kurland

Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind’s roar.” – Marty Rubin

Sitting too long produces trees.” – Lorin Morgan-Richards

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.” – Steven Magee

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill

Some night sounds outside my window remain strange & mysterious. Perhaps they are the sounds of the trees themselves, stretching their limbs in the dark, shifting a little, flexing their fingers, whispering to one another.” – Ruskin Bond

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett

Step outside for a while – calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton

That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.” – Egyptian tomb inscription

That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would’ve been sad about us, sad for us, only they’d heard it all so many thousand times before.” – Tana French

The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Unknown

The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.” – Wendell Berry

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.” – Ezra Pound

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

tree climbing quotes

The gnarled trees are what show the harshness of the tortured landscape.” – Anthony T. Hincks

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’” – John F. Kennedy

The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.” – Laline Paull

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.” – Theodore Roosevelt

The oak trees had shed their leaves, revealing the inky thumbprints of crows’ nests in the crackle glaze of dark branches.” – Kevin Ansbro

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.” – Ray Manzarek

The part of a tree that you really should respect is not the visible part, but the invisible part, the roots of the tree!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The planting of a tree is a modest form of immortality and one of the few truly long-term expressions of hope to mortal human beings.” – Voltaire

The root system supports the branches.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

The storm hits the lonely tree more strongly!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The symbolism – and the substantive significance – of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.” – Al Gore

The tree that stands so firm on land trembles in the water.” – Marty Rubin

The trees are communicating their secrets.” – Steven Magee

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country’s soul…A culture is no better than its woods.” – W.H.Auden

The trees need to breathe too just as you and me do.” – Avijeet Das

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Moliere

The trees were dappling again. They loved to dapple, it seemed to be their favorite pastime.” – Millie Florence

The trees will tell their secrets to those that tune in.” – Steven Magee

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson

The wise live in the forest.” – Steven Magee

The woods were muted, no crackles of unseen squirrels or deer moving between trees. Even the birds hushed. Perhaps in mourning for the girl who used to dance here.” – Sarah Jude

tree conservation quotes

The wrong done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.” – John Muir

There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.” – Richard Powers

There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.” – Peter Wohlleben

There are rich counsels in the trees.” – Herbert P. Horne

There is a reason why I live in a community filled with trees.” – Steven Magee

There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves.” – Avijeet Das

There is life and death in all forest, the life will bring you beauty and the dead will bring you new life! Roland R Kemler” – Roland R Kemler

There is no one as hypocritical as a man who massacred a tree in one place and cooled in the shadow of a tree in another place!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

There is something in the trees awaiting discovery.” – Steven Magee

There’s nothing more beautiful than watching trees getting dressed up for Spring and Summer” – Charmaine J Forde

There’s something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it’s facing a river, that’s the bench for me.” – Joyce Rachelle

These great trees of the mountains, I feel they know me well, as I watch them & listen to their secrets, happy to rest my head beneath their outstretched arms.” – Ruskin Bond

These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.” – Gaston Bachelard

Things that can’t move learn to see” – Louise Glück

This is why children can see Angels, touch spirits, hear the songs of the trees, and talk to the animals. Quite simply, they acknowledge the magic.” – Elizabeth Eiler

This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.” – Carl Sagan

This solitary Tree! a living thing produced too slowly ever to decay; of form and aspect too magnificent to be destroyed.” – William Wordsworth

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.” – Unknown

Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.” – Tracy Chevalier

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.” – Amit Kalantri

To ask why we fall in love is to ask why the leaves fall. And to ask how we stay in love is to ask how the trees stay.” – Jimvirle/Jinvirle

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.” – Richard Mabey

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.” – Thomas Hardy

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees.” – Theodore Roosevelt

To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.” – Russell Page

To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination.” – Joan Maloof

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

Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.” – Bernard of Clairvaux

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.” – Karen Joy Fowler

tree decorating quotes

Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.” – Bauvard

Trees are great empaths. Trees have this unusual power to take your pain away, if you can establish a connection with them.” – Banani Ray

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” – Khalil Gibran

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.” – Colin Tudge

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” – Hermann Hesse

Trees are the soul collectors come to life.” – Anthony T.Hincks

Trees are where Nature has simply begun” – Will Advise

Trees are your best antiques.” – Alexander Smith

Trees burning. The fire, it chases me like spirits [trapped] in hell, trying to e s c a p e.” – J.B. English

Trees can’t talk, but they can tell us a lot about our past, our present, and our future—if we just listen.” – Unknown

Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover” – Peter Wohlleben

Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” – Herman Hesse

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

Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible.” – Richard Powers

Trees give peace to the souls of men.” – Nora Waln

Trees have no elsewhere.” – Meena Alexander

Trees indeed have hearts.” – Henry David Thoreau

Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.” – Arundhati Roy

Trees reached for the sky long before man came into this world.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Trees sound different at night, and they smell different too.” – Marilynne Robinson

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.” – Neil Gaiman

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.” – Willa Cather

Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.” – David Mitchell

Trees’re always a relief, after people.” – David Mitchell

tree environment quotes

Trust the horticulturalist: California’s genius may be green, but it’s underlying beauty is brown.” – Jared Farmer

Under the stillness of an old tree – a monk sits in silence, the oak sheds it’s leaves.” – Meeta Ahluwalia

Understand trees to understand humans.” – Steven Magee

Unless you understand the pain and sufferings of the people, trees, birds and the nature, how can you understand God.” – Amit Ray

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” – Wangari Maathai

We are like trees; we must create new leaves, new directions, in order to grow.” – From Daysies

We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.” – Everett Mamor

We did not inherit the land from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children.” – Chief Seattle

We need to live not just for ourselves, but for the whole humanity, for the trees, birds and all the living beings. Plastic pollution free living is the easiest way to make that successful.” – Amit Ray

We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.” – Bauvard

We plant trees not for ourselves, but for the future generations.” – Caecilius Statius

We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

What a joy it is to see, trees dancing in the rain!” – Charmaine J Forde

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Chris Maser

What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer.” – Richard Powers

When I fell, every future move exploded apart in my mind, a deck of cards thrown in the air.” – Ned Hayes

When the rains come, it’s time to wash those plants & trees.” – Anthony T.Hincks

When the sky explodes, trees will be left standing on their head, and you shall marvel at the color of their sorrow as you gaze up at the sky above.” – Anthony T. Hincks

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.” – Jodi Thomas

When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of sunshine that tree basked in over its lifetime.” – Peter Brannen

When you save the life of a tree, you only pay your debt as we all owe our lives to the trees!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Whenever there is a breeze in the old forest, you might, for a moment, realize that the trees are singing. There, on the wind, are the voices of sugarberry and juniper and maple…” – Kathi Appelt

tree growing quotes

Where we are, there is light.” The wind blew hard from the east and the trees rustled their branches. From where I’m standing… it is warm enough.” – K. Ancrum

Who doesn’t enjoy seeing dark orange, magenta, and brown autumn leaves falling from the trees?” – Charmaine J Forde

Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” – Herman Hesse

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” – Max Ehrmann

You can gauge a country’s wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.” – Richard St. Barbe Baker

You can travel everywhere, just by standing still.” – Richard Powers

You can’t have the fruits without the roots.” – Stephen Covey

You didn’t grow past the old things, just enclosed them like rings in a tree, so someone feeling the bark of you could suss out your old scars.” – Max Gladstone

You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.” – Bob Ross

You want to be the tallest tree in the forest and let all the trees see you easily; but remember that lightnings will easily see you as well!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“A tree doesn’t argue with the wind. It just sways and stays.” — Unknown

“Plant a tree and you become a friend of the future.” — Unknown

“Trees are the oldest storytellers and they never hurry.” — Unknown

“The shade you sit in was someone’s idea of kindness.” — Unknown

“A tree grows by doing the same quiet thing every day.” — Unknown

“No tree ever worried about blooming late.” — Unknown

“Roots first, then reach.” — Unknown

“The best advice I ever got came from a tree that wouldn’t move.” — Unknown

“Trees don’t compare heights. They just grow.” — Unknown

“Every autumn leaf was a brave goodbye.” — Unknown

“A tree is proof that slow still counts.” — Unknown

“Stand your ground. Bend sometimes. Drop what’s dead.” — Unknown

“The tree that loses its leaves in winter isn’t broken.” — Unknown

“Even the tallest oak started as something you could lose in your pocket.” — Unknown

“Trees turn bad weather into good wood.” — Unknown

“Sit under a tree and your worries get smaller. Works every time.” — Unknown

“A tree never asks if it’s good enough to grow.” — Unknown

“Seasons change. Roots hold.” — Unknown

“The quietest things in a garden are doing the most work.” — Unknown

“A tree doesn’t try to be a flower. Be what you are.” — Unknown

“Some shade is a gift you don’t pay back, only pass on.” — Unknown

“Trees know how to wait out a storm.” — Unknown

“Your roots decide how high you can reach.” — Unknown

“A branch breaks when it forgets how to bend.” — Unknown

“The tree outside my window has seen worse years than me. It’s still here.” — Unknown

“Plant shade you may never sit in.” — Unknown

“Trees don’t rush spring. Neither should you.” — Unknown

“Deep roots, steady trunk, open sky.” — Unknown

“A tree doesn’t apologize for taking up space.” — Unknown

“Fall is a tree letting go beautifully.” — Unknown

“The strongest wood comes from the windiest hillsides.” — Unknown

“Be the tree that gives the swing a branch.” — Unknown

“Old trees remember summers nobody photographed.” — Unknown

“You can’t hurry a seed, but you can water it.” — Unknown

“A tree’s whole life is standing still and going somewhere.” — Unknown

“Leaves fall so new ones get a chance. That’s not loss, it’s timing.” — Unknown

“Climb one. You’ll remember why you did.” — Unknown

“Trees give fruit, shade, and air, and ask for rain and patience.” — Unknown

“An orchard is just optimism planted in rows.” — Unknown

“The tree doesn’t care who sees it bloom.” — Unknown

“Storms prune trees the way hard times prune people.” — Unknown

“Shelter is what a tree does without thinking.” — Unknown

“Watch a tree through a year and you’ll learn patience better than any book.” — Unknown

“Don’t cut down your dreams because they take seasons.” — Unknown

“A fallen tree becomes a home for a hundred creatures. Nothing ends completely.” — Unknown

“Trees don’t hold grudges against the axe handle. They just keep growing around it.” — Unknown

“Green is the color of things that refused to quit.” — Unknown

“The rings inside a trunk are a diary nobody needs to read.” — Unknown

“Sit still like a tree sometimes. You’ll be surprised what comes to rest on you.” — Unknown

“A seed doesn’t look up and compare itself to the forest.” — Unknown

“Shade is a tree’s way of saying stay a while.” — Unknown

“Every big tree survived a thousand days it couldn’t explain.” — Unknown

“Roots don’t show off. That’s why they win.” — Unknown

“The canopy is just a tree dreaming out loud.” — Unknown

“Trees teach the same lesson every year: let go and you’ll be fine.” — Unknown

“A quiet garden with one good tree beats a loud yard full of nothing.” — Unknown

“Some trees grow crooked and still hold the sweetest swings.” — Unknown

“Be patient with yourself. Even sequoias took their sweet time.” — Unknown

“The wind shapes trees into dancers.” — Unknown

“A tree asks for so little: light, water, and a little trust.” — Unknown