“ Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 837
“ The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. ”
- John Muir- Copy
- 624
“ 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- Copy
- 4K
“ There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ”
- Pericles- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ”
- Saint Bernard- Copy
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“ I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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