Quotes about Trees
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
-- Lucy Larcom, Plant a Tree
Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
source: Matthew (ch. XII, v. 33)
I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. . . . . Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree
source: Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
-- Robert Frost, Two Roads
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
source: The Fall of the Trees
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
-- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road, 1856