„There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.“

„Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

„Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

Źródło: Speak

„You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Źródło: Acheron

„People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.“

—  Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973

Quoted in Picasso on Art (1988), ed. Dore Ashton.
Attributed from posthumous publications

„Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.“

—  John Knowles, książka A Separate Peace

Gene
Źródło: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 14

„Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

Źródło: Speak

„To me poor people are like bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a flower-pot, you get a replica of the tallest tree, only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted, only the soil-base that is too inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.“

—  Muhammad Yunus Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1940

Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (2007)

„The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.“

—  John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914

about 1900, page 429
John of the Mountains, 1938

„I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.“

—  Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Wariant: I speak for the trees!
Źródło: The Lorax

„We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, książka Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

„We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree
In fancy we played
But coldness dwells within thine heart
A cloud is on thy brow.
We have been friends together,—
Shall a light word part us now?“

—  Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton English feminist, social reformer, and author 1808 - 1877

We have been Friends.

„A well I bless my soul
What's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.
My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug.
I'm in love,
I'm all shook up.
Mm mm oh, oh, yeah, yeah!“

—  Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977

All Shook Up, written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley (1957)
Song lyrics

„The laurel-tree grew large and strong,
Its roots went searching deeply down;
It split the marble walls of Wrong,
And blossomed o'er the Despot's crown.“

—  Richard Henry Horne English poet and critic 1802 - 1884

The Laurel Seed; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 439.

„Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees.
“Best time of day,” said Will.
Yes,” Horace agreed. “What’s for breakfast?“

—  John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938

Źródło: Erak's Ransom

„There's nothing to gain when there's nothing to be lost.
There's nothing to gain if you stay behind and count the cost.
Make the decision that you can be who you can be,
You can be.
Tasting the fruit come to the Liberty Tree.“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

Shaking the Tree
Song lyrics, Shaking the Tree (1990)

„Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree—very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.“

—  Stanley Baldwin Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867 - 1947

Broadcast from London (6 March 1934); published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 21.
1934

„In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.“

—  Alice Walker American author and activist 1944

„Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.“

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916

Nichts ist weniger verheißend als Frühreife; die junge Distel sieht einem zukünftigen Baume viel ähnlicher als die junge Eiche.
Źródło: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 27.

„I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.“

—  Cheryl Strayed, książka Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Źródło: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail