Quotes and Sayings about Trees

Autumn & Fall Nature & Environment Forests

Quotes and Sayings about Trees

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red)

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Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!

Flik in A Bug's Life

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Nature & Environment Creation Rain

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

Lula da Silva

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

Arvel Skeen in Star Wars: Andor - Season 1 Episode 5

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

Rikki in Days Gone

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.

W. S. Merwin

A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people, that's it, the end.

Anne in After Life

We believe the trees should remain where they do best. In the woods, in the ground. Alive.

Elves - Season 1 Episode 1

Our spirits need simple things, the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

Edwin Way Teale

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Thomas Fuller

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

Warren Buffett

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.

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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

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Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

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We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.

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We like to spend time in nature because it won't judge us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

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The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

David Attenborough

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So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.

Albert Einstein

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Forests are the world's air-conditioning system - the lungs of the planet - and we are on the verge of switching it off.

King Charles III

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Chen Shui-bian

What I want is for the humans and the forest to live in peace!

Prince Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. No one cares for the woods anymore.

Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

Rudolfo Anaya

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Autumn & Fall September

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning.

Truman Capote in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable. The hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Hal Borland

Autmn is spring time in reverse.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

Blue Fairy in Pinocchio

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

John Hickenlooper

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

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Love is the longing of man to find a save shelter for their soul.

Orhan Pamuk

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Every person is a special thought of God, not only humanity as a whole.

Paul de Lagarde

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

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You can be sure that, in four years, you will see Brazil much better than when I received it.

Lula da Silva - February 2023

Yeah, luck. It drives the whole damn galaxy, doesn't it?

Arvel Skeen in Star Wars: Andor - Season 1 Episode 6

Everything I did, I did for the Rebellion.

Cassian Andor in Star Wars: Andor - Season 1

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Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

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Sex Violence Drugs

Do you know why we keep going? Because what the hell else are we gonna do?

Deacon in Days Gone

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Sarah McLachlan

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Happiness Clouds

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.

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Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing it doesn't matter if it's yours or not.

Anne in After Life

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

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