best quotations about
Trees |
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Quotations
 | If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 10 likes |
 | He that plants Trees, loves others besides himself. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 6 likes |
 | Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!” — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 4 likes |
 | A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 4 likes |
 | You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes |
 | Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 2 likes |
| Trees cover up a multitude of sins. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 1 likes |
 | Many a family tree needs trimming. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Do not be too honest in your dealings, for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 1 likes |
 | That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
| This Jerónimo, my grandfather, swineherd and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (Nobel lecture, 1998) 1 likes |
 | The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. — Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913 1 likes |
| I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 1 likes |
| Maybe in our world there lives a happy little tree over there. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
Stupid Quotes
 | A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at? — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. 10 likes |
 | Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. 7 likes |
| The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade. 6 likes |
| Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. 5 likes |
| Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit. 5 likes |
 | Big trees cast more shadow than fruit. 4 likes |
 | Don’t let the tree hide the forest. 4 likes |
