I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic..
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves ag….
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks….
If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that….
The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree..
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put ….
Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity..
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods..
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor..
Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea..
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else ….
I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees..
I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt a….
He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally q….
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things..
I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does..
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole..
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; an….
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; bo….
Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each ….
For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tr….