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Tree Quotes

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Nature Tree Me Meaning Want Weed

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

Joan Ganz Cooney

Children Tree Sometimes Street Teach

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

William Ellery Channing

Smile Ignorance Tree Fruit Reach

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

Good Myself Tree People Feel Good

The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

Business Community Great Time Tree

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Great Tree Small Plant Rise Top

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

Pippa Middleton

Tree Child Cards Weekends Hanging

I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

Sunset Tree People Me My Own Out

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Tree Poetry Look Will Way Never

I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.

Suzanne Collins

Tree People Story Name Loved Short

The condom has saved so many lives, and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Mechai Viravaidya

Great Tree More Deal Save Owe

A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark.

Tree Eating Grass More Bugs Million

Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales.

Tree Perspective Me You Say Right

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.

Nature Tree Travel Fast Never Saw

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

Life Tree Singing My Life Acting

I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.

Tree Small Eye Golf Always Big

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Friend Tree Lady Over Film Come

My best friend was Aboriginal. She taught me about 'bush tucker' - the food of the land, the different things you could eat if you got lost in the bush, like grasses and berries. There's this tree called the billygoat plum - the fruit is quite nice.

Friend Food Best Tree Me Fruit

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

Tree Building House First Project

By 27, Bob Dylan had already written 'Highway 61 Revisited,' the Beatles had released 'Rubber Soul,' Bruce Springsteen had recorded 'Born to Run' and U2 had delivered 'The Joshua Tree.'

Tree Soul Born Run Highway Beatles

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

Tree Gardening Plant Place Dies

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Tree Man Stand Idle Universal Still

My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.

Tree Brother Building Always Years

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Tree Forest More Single Mexico Than

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