TREES QUOTES II
quotations about trees
Old and interesting trees are to be found in many of the disused churchyards and burying-grounds of the Metropolis. As might be expected, the Weeping Ash and Elm predominate, though the Plane and other trees are freely used. In some of the older grounds, which are now shut in by tall buildings, the conditions under which trees survive are by no means favourable, though in the various cemeteries tree and shrub planting is extensively engaged in, and with results of quite a satisfactory kind.
ANGUS DUNCAN WEBSTER
London Trees
Some days, the pines upon my hills
Speak nothing of their secret wills,
But with an absent smile they say,
"Dear, we can't talk to you today."
KARLE WILSON BAKER
"Tree Talk"
Your trees, be they in the yard or woods, are an asset. An asset that continues to grow and increase in value.
ADAM K. DOWNING
"If you have trees, challenges will just keep coming", Fauquier Now, May 15, 2017
Thus trees of nature, and each common bush,
Uncultivated thrive, and with red berries blush;
Vile shrubs are shorn for browse; the tow'ring height,
Of unctuous trees are torches for the night.
And shall we doubt (indulging easy sloth)
To sow, to set, and to reform their growth?
JOHN DRYDEN
Georgics
As the capital went on expanding it became de rigueur for all but the meanest suburban streets to have trees. In late 19th-century Camberwell, according to an account of the planting there, the best and widest avenues got the large trees such as the plane and horse chestnut, while the streets slightly lower down the social scale made do with limes, laburnums and acacias.
IAN JACK
"We hardly notice them. But street trees are monuments to city life", The Guardian, May 13, 2017
Increasingly we may see trees dying because the environment is changing around them and they may not be able to cope. This is not just due to climate change; urban development and agricultural expansion, pollution and even too much fertiliser acting as a poison -- even our most remote environments are subject to these changes.
CHRIS BRACK
"Where the old things are: Australia's most ancient trees", Phys Org, April 18, 2017
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
ECKHART TOLLE
Stillness Speaks
All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
SANTOSH KALWAR
attributed, The Geography of Loss
He that plants the trees does not always gather the fruit.
O. P. THUNBERG
attributed, Day's Collacon
Street trees are an especially important source of greenery in dense urban areas. In fact, since lush green spaces are associated with higher property values, street trees are a tool for spatial equality and a way to introduce natural features to neighbourhoods lacking parks and outdoor amenities.
EMILY MACRAE
"Why Urban Trees Are Giving Us Life", Toronto IST, May 4, 2017
I never see that prettiest thing--
A cherry bough gone white with Spring--
But what I think, "How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree.
DOROTHY PARKER
Not So Deep As A Well: Collected Poems
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
CHAD SUGG
Waking Up in Black and White
Trees are an expression of the divine but a tree is just a tree, nothing more than a bunch of cellulose and chlorophyll. Maybe so.
BARBARA NEWHILL
Huffington Post, April 26, 2017
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.
CHARLES ROLLIN
Ancient History
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
HERMANN HESSE
Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte
The death of a tree is not a happy thing. Trust me. You love your shade, you love the beauty. You love the memories it holds in its once emerald but now dying arms.
COLUMNIST S
"A dying tree that's still rich in memories", Chicago Sun Times, April 28, 2017
It's strange to imagine, but it's true: Trees and forests are able to move. Though the process is gradual and a natural part of plant migration, scientists say that the speed at which the trees move has recently increased -- a product of Earth's rising temperatures. Some species of trees may now be moving at a speed of roughly 100 kilometres a century, National Geographic reports, using forest migration to survive in the planet's warmer climate.
DAKSHA RANGAN
"Trees and forests are on the move in Canada, thanks to this", The Weather Network, May 9, 2017
Trees're always a relief, after people.
DAVID MITCHELL
Black Swan Green
He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,
He provideth a kindness for many generations,
And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The Friendly Trees"