Tree Quotes - Verses, Poems, Sayings about Trees. Welcome to my page of quotations about trees, man’s brethren in nature as they are called. I’ve no idea why “advocates for the preservation of woodlands” (a. I’ve been collecting these quotes since the 1. I sincerely hope that you enjoy them. Unite, forest lovers!

You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend. In what wild forms the gnarled and mossy boughs are twisted, what a sensation of sacred repose.

I'm sure I'll always feel like a child in the woods. These walks home from school are almost the only time I have for dreaming.. That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she's a tree and I'm a girl, but that's no real difference. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

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But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree.

They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! The green oak and cedar—the dark pine, the yellow and silvery- barked willow—each majestic old tree; hath its own peculiar tone and whisper for thine ear. We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

How well it is washed!. How fresh the woods are and calm after the last films of clouds have been wiped from the sky! A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fibre thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. They make many journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true; but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree- wavings—many of them not so much. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe. The next best time is now. He looks up, marveling at its longevity.

His grandfather probably passed by that very tree fifty years ago. In its bird- spattered crown, Gordon hears a mourning dove's sorrowful burble blending with the dwindling patter of rain on this otherwise churchyard still day. Though the sad tree wears.

Its heart out with its grief, what shall it gain? Do you believe the tardy summer cares. For all its wild rebukes and passionate prayers,Or that the sun shines warmer for its pain?~Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (1. Wallingford (b. 1. Horne. God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind.

Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.~George Peele, David and Fair Bathsabe, 1. Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees. Selflessly sharing their subtle song.

It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. Read about it here: oberlin. Muir/Quotable. John.

Muir. html. Thanks, Dan!—t. Sun. Wolf, 2. 01. January 1. 7th tweet, professorsunwolf. A palo verdeis sunlit laughterwhen Spring walksdesert ways; A pepper tree isa lace mantillathrough which themoonlight plays. It seemed a sacred spot.

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. Apple- trees like to cuddle, and it must soothe their loneliness to have a woman’s hand touch their torn and wounded skin, and a woman’s eyes look up into their green souls.

Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a 'person- of- the- art,' limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind's music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth. Attanasio, . Only a few love to be alone. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 1. March 8th. As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.

Ice- grained winter winds have scoured them of bark and twisted their burly trunks like hawsers. Their frayed and brambled limbs, upstretched in frozen homage to the sky, have been foreshortened by centuries of brief summers. Their roots press with sullen desperation into the shivered stone, and by the looks of them they have only the most tenuous grip on life. Yet the bristlecone pine is the oldest living thing on earth. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance.

Look at the flowers — for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window?

When the only wild animal he knows is a rat — glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1. Maybe trees don't like to be hugged. My father once told me that the very word . But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things. The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.

Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes.. Standing here in the jungle, I feel part of a larger, calmer identity; I feel a profound sense of being at home, a sort of companionship with the earth. It is something to have lived through storms that try one so terribly, but only succeed in giving greater powers. Even the scars of a tree add dignity, and the loss here and there of a limb only makes for more character.. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.

And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. Eat a beaver. Garofalo of The Spirit of Gardeningfor sharing a few of these wonderful quotes with me!

Philippine Trees and Garden Flowers. This is our album of tropical flowers, plants, and trees we have seen in the Philippines. Common Names Fool Proof Plant, Flaming Torch, Summer Torch. In Chinese “Ri Ri Ying”, which means “Every- day- flowered Cherry Blossom”? Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines. Pasaw (Pseuderanthemum reticulatum). This is a close- up of one group of blooms in our garden.

Native to the Mediterranean region. Below: Candle Bush (Senna alata) known to my wife as the Acapulco. Please look for Ruellia Tuberosa in wikipedia.

Our Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Brunfelsia panciflora) is doing really well now. It’s VERY fragrant. On first day is lavender, fades to almost pure white after three days. In our Tigbauan, Iloilo garden. Its scientific name is Azadirachta indica. Neem trees are quite everywhere in Panay island.”  It is also called the Indian Lilac.

It’s in the Acacia family. Thanks to reader Aries Ativo, “I think the ACACIA PYCNANTHA that you mentioned is actually Acacia auriculiformis”HELICONIA, HANGING LOBSTERCLAW (HELICONIA ROSTRATA). MONTEBELLO VILLA HOTEL, CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINESMorning Glory Bush (Ipomoea carnea), San Juan Street, Molo, Iloilo City, Philippines. We planted these to shade our house from the eastern sun. Location: Panay Island Philippines. Orchid Tree, another view.

Guava, San Miguel, Iloilo, Philippines. Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalenis), Nogas Island, Antique Province, Philippines. Giant Balete Tree on Nogas Island. Continue walking beyond the Nogas Island lighthouse and you’ll come to this tree. This tree is thought by many Filipinos to be a home to various spirit beings, mostly troublesome. My urbane Ilonggo companions seemed a bit uncomfortable and repeatedly asked the spirits to excuse them (tabi, tabi, tabi) for intruding. Dwarf Coconut trees line the Tigbauan- Leon Road, Tigbauan, Iloilo.

Philippines. The dwarf coconut trees are amazingly fast growing. They may flower and produce a prodigious number of fruit per year, as much as 2. Yellow Bells, Yellow Trumpet Tree (Tecoma stans), Rizal Avenue, Arevalo, Iloilo City, Philippines.

This vigorous shrub, the “Soleil d’Or” (Sun of Gold) Gardenia (Gardenia gjellerupii) is very fragrant, a beautiful addition to any garden. Native to India. A very common low hedge in the Philippines. Firecracker Plant (Coral Plant) Russelia equisetiformis, Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Heliconia “Golden Torch”, incorrectly called “Bird of Paradise”? Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia milli), native of Madagascar, Panay Island Philippines.

Chalice Vine, Solandra grandiflora, Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines. Adobe Reader Missing Pdf Maker Files Repair Mode Combine on this page. Purple Allamanda (A.

Native to Arabia. Highly toxic sap. Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Golden Trumpet (Allamanda), a vigorous vine, very popular in the Philippines. Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Bengal Trumpet Vine (Thunbergia grandiflora).

Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines, the only place I’ve seen this plant. Hibiscus – called Gumamela in the Philippines. Hibiscus – a thousand variants of this popular and prolific flowering plant in the Philippines. Canna Lily, Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines.

A native of the Americas but popular in Philippine gardens and roadsides. Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), native to America. Water Lily (Nymphaea capensis), Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Pink Olasiman (Portulaca oleracea) aka Gulasiman, Sahikan or Ngalug in the Philippines. Guimaras Island. Purple Wreath, Queen’s Wreath or Sandpaper Vine (Petrea volubilis).

Bromeliads, one of them is Bromeliad Vriesea . They grow like crazy and will self- seed everywhere. The plant height varies from one to seven feet.

The original and its cultivars appear in shades of yellow, orange, and red. It is especially popular in Korea and Japan, where it is often seen in mass plantings along roadsides, following an initiative pursued by the Korean- Japanese botanist Woo Jang- choon.”This plant was declared invasive by the United States Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council in 1. Thryallis (Galphimia glauca)We bought this shrub in Villa, Iloilo. It definitely likes full sun. Thanks to reader Christopher Vetrano for correcting our entry on this plant. I searched for it in internet and i found out that this plant is native to Mexico and called “Shower of Gold” . Its common to us cause We do believe that  this plant brings good luck in earning money.”Golden Arrow or Gilded Spoon (Plumeria pudica).

Panay Island. Rangoon Creeper (Quisqualis indica)  locally Niyog- Niyogan. It’s held in early February every year at the Jaro plaza We bought this plant at a wonderful roadside rest area on the National Highway between San Jose Antique and Iloilo City, in the municipality of Hamtic.

This plant may not look like the cilantro you are accustomed to but, this one grows well in the Philippine garden and tastes the same or better. It is Long Culantro (Eryngium foetidum L.). We bought our plant at the annual Jaro garden show. In our Tigbauan, Iloilo garden. Kopsia close up. Heliconia wagneriana – our garden in Tigbauan, Iloilo Croton “Stoplight” (?) Crotons are native to India.

Carol sliced the fruit open. This is at Sol y Mar Resort in Tigbauan, Iloilo. This is in our own yard. Salvacion, Sto Domingo, Albay, 4. Philippines for help in the identification of this plant as a Osmoxylon.