607 Quotes About Trees

Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' "The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one."" 'When is the next best time? Now.' ""Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.