Top Tree Quotes

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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The meaning of tree

(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

(n.) Wood; timber.

(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But o…

Dejan Stojanovic

With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.With great battles come great victo…

Israelmore Ayivor

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

A.D. Posey

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They're like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even…

Jennifer E. Smith

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which t…

Tim Willocks

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytrap…

Chris Pratt

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

Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

Anne Bishop

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die

Sunday Adelaja

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness

Munia Khan

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Arthur Miller

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Top Tree Quotes

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But o…

With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.With great battles come great victo…

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.

It's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They're like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even…

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which t…

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytrap…

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

Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually

We are one at the root - we just part at the branch

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.