Trees Are Calling Me Near

Tree Quotes. A collection of inspirational tree quotes, as well as shareworthy quotes about trees, forests, nature, gardening, the woods, flowers, leaves, seasons, wildlife, fruit, green living, and the environment. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago …
Tree Quotes

A collection of inspirational tree quotes, as well as shareworthy quotes about trees, forests, nature, gardening, the woods, flowers, leaves, seasons, wildlife, fruit, green living, and the environment.

Tree Quotes

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
— Kahlil Gibran

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
― Chinese proverb

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
― Winston Churchill

“People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.”
― Bryce Nelson

“A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.”
― George Nakashima

“A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”
― Thomas Fuller

“Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves.”
― Tasneem Hameed

“Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.”
― Sri Chaitanya

“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 on the earth.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
— Dolly Parton

“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
― Hal Borland

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
— Moliere

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.”
— Chinese proverb

“Trees are your best antiques.”
― Alexander Smith

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
— Willa Cather

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
― Lucy Larcom

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”
— Martin Luther

“This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.”
— Carl Sagan
Forest Quotes:

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A forest is a living thing like a human body…each part dependent on all the other parts.”
— Louis L’Amour

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
— John Muir

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I grew up in a forest. It’s like a room. It’s protected. Like a cathedral… it is a place between heaven and earth.”
― Anselm Kiefer

“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.”
― Jane Goodall

“Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”
― J. Sterling Morton

“A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.”
― David Douglas

“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

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”
― Alan Watts

“The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united peaceful world.”
― Enos Abijah Mills

“Trees, forests, and other forms of life – you have not inherited them from your forefathers, you have borrowed them from your children yet to be born. Their preservation, their enrichment, is the solemn responsibility you bear.”
― Native American teachings

“If you walk into a forest – you hear all kinds of subtle sounds – but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.”
— Eckhart Tolle

Nature Quotes:

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
― John Muir

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little she achieves her work.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein

“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”
― David Gerrold

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir