I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'

There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets.

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

My weave fell off. I was running in PE, and it got caught in a tree. People were looking at me funny.

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

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