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Quotations by Subject: Trees
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
He plants trees to benefit another generation.: Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC), Synephebi
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.: Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.: Moliere (1622 - 1673)
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.: Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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 climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), O Pioneers! (1913)
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )


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