trees Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about trees.
“Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.”
- Dogen Zenji
“The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.”
- Penn, William
“There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.”
- Henry Louis Gates
“O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!”
- Whitman, Walt
“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”
- Caecilius Statius
“I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.”
- Sean Bean
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
- Zora Neale Hurston