607 Quotes About Trees

Understand trees to understand humans.

I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.

I just managed to go around with one of the Great Spells in my head for years without going insane, didn't I?' He considered the last question form all angles.'Yes, you did,' he reassured himself. 'You didn't start talking to trees, even when trees started talking to you.

happy to share our hard-earned tree-ring data with one another and with the broader science community on the International Tree-Ring Data Bank,* a publicly accessible internet database hosted by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) paleoclimate program

Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.

She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.

They are, in fact, like nothing but themselves. They are the crowns of five white spruces laden with cones, bending in the wind as they do every day of their existence. Likeness is the sole problem of men.

I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kindhearted.

I’m planting a tree to teach me to make the world a better place.