How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend. – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, 1909
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. – Willa Cather, 1913
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey
The groves were God’s first temples. – William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”
Trees are your best antiques. – Alexander Smith
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. – Welsh Proverb
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. – Minnie Aumonier
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. – Wilson Flagg
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? – Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe. – Henry Ward Beecher
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. – James Russell Lowell
Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. – Fernando Pessoa
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs, 1887
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. – Stephen Girard
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. – Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. – William Blake
There are rich counsels in the trees. – Herbert P. Horne
Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees. – Author Unknown
