Tree Quotes

Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.

We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

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

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

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

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.

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.

If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Trees are worth more alive than dead

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born.

Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.