#trees

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#being #believe #granted #i #living

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. ↗

— William Penn

#blasts #fortune #men #most #power

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#get #ground #hill #i #off

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ↗

— George Eliot

#more #must #never #plant #rain

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#among #any #ascendancy #composition #gain

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#family #just #many #stories #trees

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#seem #short #sky #someone #support

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#climb #i #know #like #play

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#cannot #find #flowers #found #friend

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#discovering #full #human #human life #knows