Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

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

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

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
Chen Shui-bian

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
Douglas Hyde

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther

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

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
Rajiv Gandhi

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Lucy Stone