God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
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.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene..
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene.
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.
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats.
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.
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.
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
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