best quotations about
Trees |
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Quotations
 | If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 9 likes |
 | He that plants Trees, loves others besides himself. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 5 likes |
 | Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 3 likes |
 | God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!” — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 3 likes |
 | A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 3 likes |
 | You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
 | Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 2 likes |
 | Trees cover up a multitude of sins. |
 | Many a family tree needs trimming. |
 | Do not be too honest in your dealings, for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. |
 | That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. |
| This Jerónimo, my grandfather, swineherd and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (Nobel lecture, 1998) |
| There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend. |
| I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people. |
| Maybe in our world there lives a happy little tree over there. |
Funny Quotes
 | Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. |
Stupid Quotes
 | A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. 7 likes |
| The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade. 5 likes |
 | Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit. 4 likes |
| Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. 4 likes |
 | Big trees cast more shadow than fruit. 3 likes |
| Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. 3 likes |
 | Don’t let the tree hide the forest. 3 likes |
