100 Famous Quotes about the Trees

Trees have been a popular subject in literature due to their significant role in human life and culture, providing food, shelter, and resources, and being revered in various myths and religious stories. Their beauty and diversity across environments have inspired poets, writers, and artists for ce Read more

100 Famous Quotes about the Trees

1. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
2. "Trees are the Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." - Rabindranath Tagore
3. "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Molière
4. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Greek Proverb
5. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson
6. "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir
7. "Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." - Kahlil Gibran
8. "He who plants a tree plants hope." - Lucy Larcom
9. "The earth has music for those who listen." - George Santayana
10. "Trees are humanity's greatest ally in the fight against climate change." - Leo DiCaprio
11. "A tree is a poem that the earth writes upon the sky." - Kahlil Gibran
12. "Trees are like the veins of our planet, carrying the life blood of the air, water and wildlife around it." - Julia Hill
13. "The future will either be green or not at all." - Bob Brown
14. "Trees are the lungs of the earth, purifying the air and giving fresh oxygen." - Tim Fargo
15. "Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth." - Hermann Hesse“
16. “The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
17. “If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.” – Stephen Girard
18. “Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.” – Munia Khan
19. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
20. “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” – Wangari Maathai
21. “We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.” – Everett Mamor
22. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.” – Bryce Nelson
24. “Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.” – Susan Fenimore Cooper
25. “Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn.” – Lord Orrery
26. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot
27. “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” – John Muir
28. “Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” – Khalil Gibran
29. “This solitary Tree! a living thing produced too slowly ever to decay; of form and aspect too magnificent to be destroyed.” – William Wordsworth
30. “Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” – John Muir
31. “A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.” – George William Curtis
32. “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” – Jack Handey
33. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.” – Carolus Linnaeu
34. “You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.” – Bob Ross
35. “The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.” – Tom Felton
36. “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.” – Wendell Berry
37. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
38. “Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.” – Henry Ward Beecher
39. “You can’t have the fruits without the roots.” – Stephen Covey
40. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
41. “The trees are God’s great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green across the world His thoughts serene.” – Leonora Speyer
42. “It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” – Henry David Thoreau
43. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” – William Blake
44. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
45. “You can’t sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.” – Tom Shadyac
46. “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Mahatma Gandhi
47. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”- Backseat Goodbye
48. “Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”- Whitney Brown
49. 36.“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees.”- Theodore Roosevel
50. “If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before.”- Amit Ray
51. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
52. “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller
53. “A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.” – Georges Rouault
54. “Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.” – Malay proverb
55. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “An acorn is just a tree’s way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.” – Shirley Ann Grau
57. “Hope is the tree that holds the world” – Pliny
58. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”- William Shakespeare
59. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Narval
60. “And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance, they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.” – Kathleen Raine
61. “The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.” – Thomas Campbell
62. “Alone with myself the trees bend to caress me the shade hugs my heart”- Candy Polgar
63. “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” – Chinese proverb
64. “I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.” – Jamges Douglas
65. “Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.” – Martin O’Malley
66. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
67. “There is, I conceive, scarcely any tree that may not be advantageously used in the various combinations of form and color.” – Gilpin
68. “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” – Hermann Hesse
69. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”- Kahlil Gebran
70. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”- Chad Sugg
71. “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
72. “Let soldiers on maneuver plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedling.” – John Wright
73. “Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.” – Rene Dubos
74. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
75. “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.” – Theodore Roosevelt
76. “I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” – Willa Cather
77. “That’s the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.”- Wangari Maathai
78. “Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, unnerves his strength, invites his end.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. “You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” – St. Bernard
80. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.” – William Blake
81. “Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within.” – Chinese Proverb
82. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
83. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” – Nova Bair
84. “Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other’s company. Only a few love to be alone.” – Jens Jensen
85. “The greatest gift of the garden in the restoration of the five senses.” – Hanna Rion
86. “The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.” – Ray Manzarek
87. “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Chris Maser
88. “Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.” – Karen Joy Fowler
89. “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” – Victor Hugo
90. “Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” – Walter Scott
91. “To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination.”- Joan Maloof
92. “Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” – Albert Schweitzer
93. “Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
94. “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
95. “When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”- Jodi Thomas
96. “All our wisdom is stored in the trees.” – Santosh Kalwar
97. “In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” – Paulo Coelho
98. “I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
99. “We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” – Aldo Leopold
100. “A tree falls the way it leans.” – Bulgarian proverb
101. “A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.” – Woody Allen
102. “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of a garden.” – Thomas Jefferson
103. “The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
104. “This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.” – Carl Sagan
105. “It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.” – Wilson Flagg
106. “Forests are the lungs of our land.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
107. “The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings.” – Buddhist Sutra
108. “There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.”- Peter Wohlleben
109. “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Eintein
110. “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” – Bill Vaughan
111. “In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin; a grass-blade’s no easier to make than an oak.” – James Russell Lowell
112. “A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.” – Alexander Smith
113. “No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.” – Hugh Johnson
114. “I’ve got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.” – Liam Gallagher
115. “A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Basil
116. “If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.” – W. B. Yeats
117. “A tree does not move unless there is wind.” – Afghan Proverb
118. “When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.” – Leonard Lauder
119. “I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”- Andrea Koehle Jones
120. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence”- Hal Borland
121. “Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence.”- Kim Taplin
122. “That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.” – Egyptian tomb inscription
123. “A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” – Welsh Proverb
124. “What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?” – Pablo Neruda
125. “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
126. “I have grown taller from walking with the tree.” – Karle Wilson Baker
127. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” – Rumi
128. “There is not a way into the woods for which there is also not a way out of it.” – Irish Proverb
129. “All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
130. “A tree doesn’t fall with one blow.” – Yiddish Proverb
131. “A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.”- Anton Chekhov
132. “To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” – Mirabel Osler
133. “Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.” – Amit Ray
134. “May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.” – John Henry Jowett
135. “Learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves.” – Tasneem Hameed
136. “I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.” – Louise Dickinson Rich
137. “Advice from a tree, stand tall and proud, sink your roots into the earth. Be content with your natural beauty, go out on a limb, drink plenty of water, remember your roots and enjoy the view.”- Ilan Shmia
138. “To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.” – Russell Page
139. “Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness.” – Michael Pollan
140. “We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.” – Franz Kafka

Planting a tree is more than just an act of environmental stewardship; it’s a profound gesture of hope, a symbol of life, and a legacy for future generations.

The wisdom captured in these 100 quotes serves as a reminder of our deep connection to nature and the responsibility we hold to nurture and protect it. As we plant trees, we are not only fostering a healthier planet but also sowing seeds of inspiration, peace, and prosperity.

Let these quotes encourage you to take action today—because every tree planted is a step toward a greener, more sustainable world.