“If trees could speak they wouldn't”

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.”

“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

“Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.”

“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”

“I told Ethan that I speak in an unrestricted manner to animals -- things like, aren't you just the cutest little kitty… that kind of thing, which I wouldn't dream of doing to humans. Then I realized I wish I could.”

“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying God. It “consents,” so to speak, to God's creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree.”