I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
Joseph Beuys

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
Ziggy Marley

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
John Fogerty

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carolus Linnaeus

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
Sylvester Stallone

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

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

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Matthew Fox

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Susan Olsen

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
Doug Coupland

In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
Matt LeBlanc

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
Samuel Alexander

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
James Weldon Johnson

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
Aime Cesaire

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney