Variant: I speak for the trees!
Source: The Lorax
“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.”
The Fratricides (1964)
Source: Report to Greco
“If trees could speak they wouldn't”
Source: Facts About the Moon
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Source: Fireflies
“I swear, there is in me no wizardry of word.
I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”
Przysięgam, nie ma we mnie czarodziejstwa słów.
Mówię do ciebie milcząc, jak obłok czy drzewo.
"Dedication" (1945); quoted in Conversant Essays : Contemporary Poets on Poetry (1990) edited by James McCorkle, p. 69
“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”
Source: The Lorax (1971)
Context: I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!
But I'm also in charge of the brown Bar-ba-loots,
Who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suits,
And happily lived, eating Truffula fruits.
Now, thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground,
There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round!
And my poor Bar-ba-loots are all getting the crummies
Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies!
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 9
