Quotes About Trees - Ode To Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~ Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914 ~

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, "Song of the Open Road," 1933 ~

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!"
~ Joseph Campbell ~

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than
the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined
branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of
the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike
you with the presence of a deity?
~ Seneca ~

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 ~

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 ~

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~
~ Martin Luther ~

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.
~ Author Unknown ~

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes" ~

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees
as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
~ James Russell Lowell ~

The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood,
have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go,
and so many generations pass into silence,
that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us
if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.
~ Author Unknown,
quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938 ~

Alone with myself
The trees bend to caress me
The shade hugs my heart
~ Candy Polgar ~

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he
provideth a kindness for many generations, and
faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
~ Henry Van Dyke ~

I am not bound for any public place,
but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,
and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
~ Wendell Berry ~

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
~ Helen Keller ~

He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
~Lucy Larcom, from 'Plant a Tree' ~