Quotes on Tree

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, _x000D_ He provideth a kindness for many generations, _x000D_ And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind that passes through the trees, alert to everything that is happening. Concentration excludes much, includes little. Awareness excludes nothing, includes all. Awareness is a state of no-mind. You are, yet you are not focused. You are just a mirror reflecting all, echoing all; see the beauty of it and the silence and the stillness.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.