God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
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.
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods -
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle, something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
Do not be very 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.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Trees are your best antiques.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
History is like a constantly changing tree.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.
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