Tree quotes

“I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.” Bill Cosby

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” William Blake

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” William Blake

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” William Blake

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” William Blake

“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” John Rockefeller

“If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.” Jon Stewart

“I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.” Angelina Jolie

“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.” Michael Jackson

“The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.” Paris Hilton

“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” Albert Schweitzer

“Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'” Donald Trump

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” Rabindranath Tagore

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.” Oprah Winfrey

“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?” Virginia Woolf

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?” Walt Whitman

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” Yogi Berra

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

“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.” Ambrose Bierce

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Marcus Garvey

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” George Eliot

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

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

“If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.” Jim Rohn