Tree quotes

“I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.” Audrey Hepburn

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” Warren Buffett

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

“White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.” Jimi Hendrix

“Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.” Jimi Hendrix

“I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?” Steve Martin

“We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.” Barack Obama

“We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.” Barack Obama

“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.” Henry Miller

“Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.” Henry Miller

“Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” Henry Miller

“What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.” Henry Miller

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” John Muir

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.” John Muir

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!” John Muir

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.” John Muir

“I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.” Marilyn Manson

“I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.” Ron Paul

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” Dolly Parton

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.” Blaise Pascal

“It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'” Colin Powell

“What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.” Colin Powell

“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.” Pope John Paul II

“A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?” Ronald Reagan

“The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.” Henry Rollins

“I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.” Henry Rollins

“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.” Bertrand Russell

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.” Bill Cosby