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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
Sep 10, 2025
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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.
Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
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.
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. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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.
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.
The groves were God's first temples.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed 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.
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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 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.
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do