"The twisted tree lives its life, while the right tree ends up in planks." ~Chinese Proverb
"There are more life-forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet." ~Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees
"There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land." ~Christopher Columbus
"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." ~Anon
"Trees attract birds. They're one indispensable creatures to promote a balanced ecology." ~Leah C. Dancel, August 6, 2022
“Trees it turns out, have a completely different way of communicating: they use scent.” ~Peter Wohlleben
"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises." ~Emily Carr
"Trees save the world, the world destroys them." ~Leah C. Dancel, September 6, 2022
"Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." ~Carl Jung
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"We are all the leaves in one tree.
We are all the waves in one sea."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
"We are the best guardians of the forest." ~Indigenous Peoples (If Not Us Then Who? video)
"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all." ~Dorothy Day
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"When he breathes out he feeds the trees." ~from Serge Kahili King, Doctor of Psychology, Shaman, author.
"When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun." ~Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (1960)
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" ~Ralph Marston
"When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?" ~Seneca
"When you plant a tree, every leaf that grows will tell you what you sow will bear fruit. So if you have any sense, my friend, don’t plant anything but love. You show your worth by what you seek." ~Rumi
"Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace." ~French Proverb
"Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes"
"Wisdom is given by Nature
so that we can walk with the trees
knowing well that our roots
are the most beautiful part of
who we are."
~Rado Gatchalian
“Would it not be more tranquil and serene to be a gardener and tend the plants?” ~Sun Tzu
“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ~A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason." ~Ernest Hemingway
"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books." ~C.G Jung
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RELATED QUOTES
"A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong." ~Tecumseh
"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” ~John Muir
“Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.” ~ William C. Bryant
“In the woods we return to reason and faith.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing."
~Rumi
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." ~Aeschylus
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"I would rather be amongst forest animals and the sound of nature, than amongst city traffic and the noise of man." ~Anthony D. Williams
"If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road." ~Rumi
"In the twilight woods of wishes, dreamers rest their weary souls." ~Angie Weiland Crosby
“In the woods we return to reason and faith.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.” ~John Muir
"It's always good to grow, kiss the clouds and touch the sky but to know your roots is even better. Time will come where storm hits your pedestal and you got no choice but to surrender and fall, returning back to where you came from." ~Jeffrey D. Cejero
“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” ~ John Muir
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak." ~William Congreve (1670-1629)
"Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water." ~Brian Jacques, Redwall
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world itself." ~Henry Miller
"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds." ~David Hume
"The task of a modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts." ~CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man
"The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light." ~Sandra Kring
"Those who have packed far up into grizzly country know that the presence of even one grizzly on the land elevates the mountains, deepens the canyons, chills the winds, brightens the stars, darkens the forest, and quickens the pulse of all who enter it." ~John Murray
"To meditate is to rest mind like forest." ~Gede Prama
“To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.” ~John Muir
"Walked for half an hour in the garden. A fine rain was falling, and the landscape was that of autumn. The sky was hung with various shades of gray, and mists hovered about the distant mountains - a melancholy nature. The leaves were falling on all sides like the last illusions of youth under the tears of irremediable grief. A brood of chattering birds were chasing each other through the shrubberies, and playing games among the branches, like a knot of hiding schoolboys. Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail." ~Henri Frederic Amiel
"What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges..." ~Thomas Merton
"What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout." ~Rumi
"When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop" ~ Henry David Thoreau
"When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree." ~William Blake
"When seeds are sown; watered with kindness and fondness; No matter what the season; It will grow healthy and strong." ~Leah C. Dancel, October 2018
"When the root is deep, there is no reason to fear the wind." ~Anon
"When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." ~Rumi
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" ~Ralph Marston
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." ~Peter Marshall
“Wilderness is a necessity … there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.’ ~John Muir
"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Ye are all fruits of the one tree and leaves of one branch." ~Baha'u'llah
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VERSES on Trees
"Advice from a TREE
Stand up tall and proud
Sink your roots into the earth
Be content with your natural beauty
Go out on a limb
Drink plenty of water
Remember your roots
Enjoy the view."
~Ilan Shamir
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"Alone with myself
The trees bend to caress me
The shade hugs my heart."
~Candy Polgar
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"Be like a tree. Stay grounded.
Connect with your roots.
Turn over a new leaf.
Bend before you break.
Enjoy your unique natural beauty.
Keep growing."
~Joanne Raptis
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"Friendship with trees: true and pure,
One beautiful day from spring to summer.
Let yourself be free and spread your wings,
Keep calm and she will take you to heaven."
~Rado Gatchalian, short poem
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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;
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.
~ Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914 ~
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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.
~ Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933
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PRAYER OF THE WOODS
"I am the heat of your hearth
on the cold winter night,
the friendly shade screening
you from the summer sun,
and my fruits refreshing draught
quenching your thirst
as you journey on.
I am the beam that built your house,
the board of your table,
the bed in which you lie,
and the timber that builds your boat.
I am the handle of your hoe,
the door of your homestead,
the wood of your cradle,
the shell of your coffin.
I am the bread of kindness
and the flower of beauty.
I'm who pass by,
listen to my prayer.
Harm me not."
~Anon author of Portuguese origin
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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
~Khalil Gibran
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"Trees of the forest, you know my soul!
As envy dictates, the crowd praises and blames;
But you know me well, you have seen me often,
Alone in your depths, gazing and dreaming.
You know the stone where a scarab beetle scampers,
A humble drop of water falling from flower to flower,
A cloud, a bird can occupy me a whole day,
Contemplation fills my heart with love..."
~Victor Hugo, Contemplations
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"When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees,
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee:
How great thou art! How great thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee:
How great thou art! How great thou art!"
~Carl Gustav Boberg
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