People as trees quotes:

Send

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people. -- Richard Avedon
I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring. -- Ian Frazier
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can. -- Ranbir Kapoor
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. -- Black Elk
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. -- Geronimo
Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know. -- Catherine Hicks
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. -- Adam Johnson
Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood. -- William Kamkwamba
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree. -- Winona LaDuke
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story. -- Suzanne Collins
Trees're always a relief, after people. -- David Mitchell
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. -- Earl Warren
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under. -- Alfred North Whitehead
--
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees. -- J Mascis
The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees -- Peter Drucker
--
The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people. -- Willa Cather
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." -- Wallace Stevens
If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees? -- Cecelia Ahern
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. -- Zora Neale Hurston
People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots. -- Tom Robbins
I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people. -- Sloane Crosley
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. -- Chief Seattle
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people -- Marge Piercy
Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. -- Max Lucado
--
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees -- Kishore Kumar
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. -- Michael Pollan
I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are -- Ram Dass
Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights. -- Dave Barry
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. -- Ho Chi Minh
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. -- Chanakya
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars. -- Bruno Mars
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon! -- Bam Margera
Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people -- Eminem
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. -- Earl Warren
God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both. -- Max Lucado
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. -- Robert Indiana
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together. -- Jennifer Estep
One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people. -- Rajneesh
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people. -- Bryant H. McGill
Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. -- Aimee Bender
Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees. -- Daniyal Umar
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. -- Bhartrhari
--
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference. -- Lucinda Roy
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. -- Jack Handey
--
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real. -- Josh Turner
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park. -- Yoko Ono
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. -- Confucius
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees. -- Katherine Mansfield
I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men. -- Sherwood Anderson

Send