Trees are beautiful, especially old trees. There are many proverbs and quotes in which trees are mentioned.
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Prickly pear trees don't produce peaches.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillSome men go through a forest and see no firewood.
Keep your mind open for opportunities.Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
David EverettTall oaks grow from little acorns.
Great things may come from small beginnings.Teacher: "George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him?"
Student: "Because George still had the axe in his hand."
Student: "Because George still had the axe in his hand."
The apple cannot be stuck back on the tree of knowledge.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Children will look like or behave like their parents.The axe falls first upon a straight tree.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
The cedar spreads his dark-green layers of shade.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLatin: Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
BibleSource: Genesis 1:12
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.
BibleSource: Proverbs 11:30
The fruits of a tree on the roadside are never eaten ripe.
The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum.
The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the forest.
The oldest trees bear the softest fruits.
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always ... they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
John SteinbeckThe sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree.
Edgar Allan PoeThe tree makes shafts for axes.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Goldberry
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MolièreThe trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.
Then God said, 'Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.' And so it was. The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good.
BibleSource: Genesis 1:11-12
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie AumonierThere's nothing I admire more than someone planting trees...
...under whose shade they may never get to sit.
(unknown author)...under whose shade they may never get to sit.
Source: Quote from film: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
James G. WattThey throw stones at the walnut trees, but not at the maple.
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
To lay the axe to the root of the tree.
Today is the day to celebrate life and to plant a tree for the future.
(unknown author)Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
Kahlil GibranWe fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath TagoreUnless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Charles HareWhat is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall SmithWhen eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
When eating the fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree.
William BlakeWhen planning for a year, plant maize. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
You can count the apples on a tree but you can't count the trees from one apple.
You can find no pomegranates on a willow tree, nor shame in the wicked.
You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see
Where I was going wrong
ColdplayAnd brought it back to me
And that's what made me see
Where I was going wrong
Source: Swallowed in the Sea
You don't have to cut a tree down to get at the fruit.