Quotes about Nature
The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.
- Dr. Seuss
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
- Ronald Reagan
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
- Wendell Berry
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
- Heinrich Heine
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
- George Eliot
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
- Henri Matisse
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
- Henry Ward Beecher
And on the tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, sat like a cormorant.
- John Milton
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
- William Wordsworth
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
- John Milton