Tree Quotes

A collection of quotes about and with trees.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn’t it just lie there and rot?

Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. their leaves are telling secrets. their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. and their roots give names to all things. their language has been lost. but not the gestures.”

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

Chad Sugg

“At night i dream that you and i are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”

Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta

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

Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.

Chinese proverb

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

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, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.

Carl Sagan

I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.

Louise Dickinson Rich

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