“Do not be upright in your dealings, for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.” ~Chanakya
“Do not disturb!
Do not bother the trees!
Leave them alone!”
~Jose Pepito Cunanan
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.” ~J. Willard Marriott
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as gthough they liked it and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do. They 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
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ~William Blake
“The trees which are pruned watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.” ~Bryant McGill
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ~Rabindranath Tagore
“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” ~Emily Carr
“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?” ~Seneca
“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Woodnotes”
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Verse on Trees
“Advice from a TREE
Stand up tall and proud
Sink your roots into the earth
Be content with your natural beauty
Go out on a limb
Drink plenty of water
Remember your roots
Enjoy the view.” ~Ilan Shamir
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.” ~Kahlil Gibran
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~ Joyce Kilmer, “Trees,” 1914 ~
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, “Song of the Open Road,” 1933
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