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Quotes about Trees and Nature

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
 ~ Kahlil Gibran


“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt


“Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is vrooom.”
 ~ Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch


“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
 ~ Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky


“The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
 ~ Vincent van Gogh


“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


“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.”
 ~ E.B. White


“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”
 ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden


“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
 ~ Vincent van Gogh


“Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.”
 ~ Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh


“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it...”
 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
 ~ Indira Gandhi


"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.”
 ~ Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther


“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”
 ~ Henry David Thoreau


“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
 ~ John Keats


“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
 ~ John Muir


“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
 ~ Frank Lloyd Wright


“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
 ~ Albert Einstein


“I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”
 ~ Alan Hovhaness


“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
 ~ Charles Dickens


“We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.”
 ~ Theodore Roosevelt


“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
 ~ Khalil Gibran


“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
 ~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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