607 Quotes About Trees

In a difficult year, trees may increase their mass by less than one gram! During this time, the tree devotes its limited resources to maintaining the status quo. Like an eternal optimist, the tree concentrates on keeping itself alive until such time that conditions improve.

The language of trees is even more remote from human intelligence than the language of beasts or of birds. What to these lovers, for instance, would the singular syllables "wuther-quotle-glug" have signified?

Sanmam ki ağaç kadar güzel bir şiir olsun.

There is something to the air here that leads one to compulsive napping. All these trees excrete dangerous levels of oxygen that one can only process in sleep. They have learned that we make better fertilizer for them unconscious.

Who else goes to the woods to find peace only to discover themself in the process? I find forests unclutter the mind with each breath the trees afford me.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

Trees are great messengers of peace. One of the worst crimes of modern humankind is indiscriminate cutting down of the trees, and forests, in the pursuit of establishing civilization. No wonder, that modern civilized society has everything but peace.

The trees were dappling again. They loved to dapple, it seemed to be their favorite pastime. They could use anything of course: moonlight, starshine, candlelight, and rain. Today they used the sunlight that the sky supplied, and dappled nearly everything with it, from grass, water, and stones, to Lydia and Livy themselves as they walked along the trail that led out of Mulberry Glen.

Interestingly, some of these European extinct or relictual taxa are spreading today after re-introductions into parts of Europe (e.g. Morus mulberry, Tsuga, Cedrus cedar, Aesculus, Rhododendron ponticum), perhaps re-occupying ‘empty niches’ vacated earlier in the Quaternary.