Sayings about Trees
The best trees grow on the steepest hills. ~ Burundi Proverb
The tallest tree is rooted in the ground. ~ Traditional Proverb
The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade. ~ Chinese Proverbs
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~ American Proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. ~ Chinese Proverb
A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit. ~ Afghan Proverb
All birds will flock to a fruitful tree. ~ Senegalese Proverb
A big tree attracts the wind. ~ Chinese Proverb
When the tree waves, wind is stirring. ~ Chinese Proverb
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit. ~ German Proverb
If a dead tree falls, it carries with it a live one. ~ Kenyan Proverb
The tree that is not taller than you cannot shade you. ~ African Proverb
Every tree feels the force of the wind. ~ Afghan Proverb
Large trees are envied by the wind. ~ Japanese Proverb
To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. ~ Congolese Proverb
A little axe can cut down a big tree. ~ Jamaican Proverb
The taller the tree the harder the fall. ~ Dutch Proverb
The tree of silence bears the fruits of peace. ~ Arabian Proverb
When the heat has passed, you forget about the shade of trees. ~ Japanese Proverb
He who leans against a big tree will always find shade. ~Albanian Proverb
A tree does not grow from the sky. ~ Bosnian Proverb
You cannot climb a tree with one hand. ~ Gabonese Proverb
When eating the fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
The firm tree does not fear the storm. ~ Indonesian Proverb
God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree. ~ Arabian Proverb
Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind? ~ Armenian Proverb
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. ~ Arabian Proverbs
A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small. ~ Senegalese Proverb
Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit. ~ French Proverb
A tree falls the way it leans. ~ Walloon Proverb
When the tree falls, the shadow flies. ~ Chinese Proverb
The leafiest tree doesn’t always have the juiciest fruit. ~ Panamanian Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~ Greek Proverb
The tree will not sway without a trace of wind. ~ Afghan Proverb
The tree casts its shadow on everything, even upon the woodcutter. ~ Indian Proverb
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. ~ English Proverb
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~ Chinese Proverb
The oldest trees bear the softest fruits. ~ German Proverb
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~ Welsh Proverb
Tall trees catch much wind. ~ Traditional Proverb
You can count the apples on a tree but you can’t count the trees from one apple. ~ Gypsy Proverb
Useful trees are cut down first. ~ Korean Proverb
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~ Cree Proverb
No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground. ~ Chinese Proverb
Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
When the tree is down, everyone runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood. ~ Italian Proverb
Don’t climb a tree to catch a fish. ~ Chinese Proverb
A good tree bears good fruit. ~ German Proverb
Great trees are envied by the wind. ~ Japanese Proverbs
If you praise the man who taps the palm tree, he’ll put water in the palm wine. ~ Zanzibar Proverb
The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit. ~ Brazilian Proverb
Though the palm tree in the jungle is big, who knows how big its yield will be? ~ Liberian Proverb
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. ~ Chinese Proverb
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you want apples, you have to shake the trees. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
An apple never falls far from the tree. ~ English Proverbs
A dead cherry tree will not blossom. ~ Japanese Proverbs
A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds. ~ Myanmar Proverb
If you cut down the trees you will find the wolf. ~American Proverbs
When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches. ~ Dutch Proverbs
The apple does not fall far from the tree. ~ Traditional Proverb
Don’t despise the nut, one day it will be a palm tree. ~ Angolan Proverb
Not all the tree’s blossoms will bear fruit. ~ Mauritanian Proverb
The nuts from a palm tree don’t fall without dragging a few leaves with it. ~ Congolese Proverb
Even the best tree sometimes has bad fruit. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Don’t show me the palm tree, show me the dates. ~ Afghan Proverb
You don’t have to cut a tree down to get at the fruit. ~ Cambodian Proverb
The tree breaks that takes all the force of the wind. ~ African Proverb
Great trees give more shade than fruit. ~ German Proverbs
If you have planted a tree you must water it too. ~ Tamil Proverb
When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine. ~ Indian Proverb
Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots. ~ Malawian Proverb
In a tree that you can’t climb, there are always a thousand fruits. ~ Indian Proverbs
When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves. ~ African Proverb
Quotations about Trees
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. ~ Charles Rollin
From the withered tree, a flower blooms. ~ Author Unknown
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. ~ William Blake
Every great oak tree was once a nut that stood its ground. ~ Author Unknown
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk? ~ Alice Walker
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson
Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. ~ Bible
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ~ Khalil Gibran
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~ Hal Borland
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ~ Thomas Jefferson
All our wisdom is stored in the trees. ~ Santosh Kalwar
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Even trees do not die without a groan. ~ Henry David Thoreau
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~ John Muir
Maybe trees don’t like to be hugged. ~ Author Unknown
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. ~ Georges Rouault
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ~ Martin Luther
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight. ~ Leonard Lauder
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. ~ Marcus Garvey
He that would have fruit must climb the tree. ~ Thomas Fuller
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. ~ Henry David Thoreau
All the tree-tops lay asleep, like green waves on the sea. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. ~ Carl Linnaeus
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn’t it just lie there and rot. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are rich counsels in the trees. ~ Herbert P. Horne
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these. ~ Cicero
Trees shade us, but they know it not. ~ Ben Jonson
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. ~ Wilson Flagg
A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. ~ Alexander Smith
He who plants a tree Plants a hope. ~ Lucy Larcom
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. ~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~ Roy L. Smith
Those are the best trees that combine use with ornament. ~ John Evelyn
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. ~ Sir John Davies
Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees. ~ Author Unknown
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila
A tree in the desert is still a tree. ~ The Talmud
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The trees are God’s great alphabet, with them He writes in shining green, across the world His thoughts serene. ~ Leonora Speyer
The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down. ~ Rush Limbaugh
He that plants the trees does not always gather the fruit. ~ O. P. Thunberg
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. ~ Thomas Fuller
Storms make trees take deeper roots. ~ Dolly Parton
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ~ Bruce Lee
Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven. ~ Author Unknown
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats. ~ Woody Allen
To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~ Willa Cather
Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier their boughs. ~ Edward George Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, like keys of some great instrument. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All birds will flock to a fruitful tree. ~ Senegalese Proverb
When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air. ~ Jodi Thomas
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. ~ Mary Cassatt
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. ~ Walter Savage Landor
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. ~ William Blake
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. ~ Albert Einstein
He that planteth a tree is the servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. ~ Henry Van Dyke
Trees are your best antiques. ~ Alexander Smith
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. ~ John Muir
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ~ Pericles
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~ Author Unknown
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn’t affect the entire forest. ~ Chen Shui-bian
First I shake the whole apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ~ Martin Luther
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. ~ George R. R. Martin
Trees‘re always a relief, after people. ~ David Mitchell
What is more mortifying, than to feel that you have missed the plum, for want of courage to shake the tree? ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~ James G. Watt
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. ~ Spike Milligan
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ William Blake
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, unnerves his strength, invites his end. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. ~ Chad Sugg
When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as atree does. ~ George Bernard Shaw
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. ~ Denise Levertov
Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade. ~ William Cullen
Save a tree. Eat a beaver. ~ Author Unknown
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ Warren Buffett
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ~ Bible
The whispering breeze pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. ~ Alexander Pope
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~ Stephen Girard
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. ~ Martin Luther
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~ Saint Basil
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other’s company. Only a few love to be alone. ~ Jens Jensen
Alone with myself, the trees bend to caress me, the shade hugs my heart. ~ Candy Polgar
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. ~ Thomas Campbell
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness. ~ Kahlil Gibran
More Quotes about Trees
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ~ John Muir, American naturalist.
- The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist.
- A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. ~ George Nakashima, Japanese-American woodworker.
- Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish. ~ Munia Khan, Bangladeshi poet.
- Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. ~ Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet.
- Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ~ John Muir, American naturalist.
- Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. ~ Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet.
- For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. ~ Herman Hesse, German-Swiss poet.
- The groves were God’s first temples. ~ William Cullen Bryant, American poet.
- Trees are always a relief, after people. ~ David Mitchell, English novelist.
- Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn. ~ Lord Orrery, Irish writer.
- 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
- The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~ Hanna Rion, American environmentalist.
- In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. ~ Alice Walker, American novelist.
- What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky? ~ Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet.
- A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, sun and stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. ~ Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer.
- We are born of love; Love is our mother. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment, ultimately you do to yourself. ~ Ian Somerhalder, American actor and environmental activist.
- The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect.
- Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. ~ Hal Borland, American author.
- You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~ Hal Borland, American author.
- In the great forests of the west, where once a thousand men had hacked and slashed and torn and berated the earth, only the oldest of the trees remained. They clung to the soil and sang their song in the wind. ~ Louis L’Amour, American novelist.