Tree quotes

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Epistle

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734),Gnomologia, 1732

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.
- Gandhi

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

When walking through a warm and lush forest setting one's thoughts can easily take flights of fancy. It is not difficult to shed the layers of modern life and find one's more subtle or primitive beginnings. Somewhere from deep within the spirit and majesty of each single tree steps forth and at once one can find themselves transported to a world of shadow and shade.
- Morgan La Fey, Sacred Trees

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

In the woods we return to reason and faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

We respect and honour and admire you, O trees, for you represent both Peace and Power - though you are mighty you hurt no creature. Though you sustain us with your breath, you will give up your life to house and warm and teach us. We give thanks for your blessing upon our lives and upon our lands. May you fare well in this chosen place. Awen.
- Druid Ceremony for Planting a Grove

They are beautiful in their peace,
they are wise in their silence.
They will stand after we are dust.
They teach us, and we tend them.
- Galeain ip Altiem MacDunelmor

Alone with myself
The trees bend
to carress me
The shade hugs
my heart.
- Candy Polgar

Tree, gather up my thoughts
like the clouds in your branches.
Draw up my soul
like the waters in your root.

In the arteries of your trunk
bring me together.
Through your leaves
breathe out the sky.
- J. Daniel Beaudry, Breath

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
-- Lucy Larcom, Plant a Tree

Collected by OldToby, Realm of Estë, March 2004