Trees(Related Subjects: Nature)

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 seeA 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 - )