Quotes about trees
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„You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.“
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
„I've been 15 years in the nut ward, for trying to stop the trees from being cut down, from trying to rearrange the lifestyle of a bunch of people who don't want to change. But they're gonna change because a cold wind is blowing. You're gonna change or else there's going to be no life left on the planet Earth.“
— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017
Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHq2aN9tYE by Penny Daniels (1989)
„If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.“
— Mahmoud Darwich Palestinian writer 1941 - 2008
„If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.“
— Maggie Stiefvater American writer 1981
The Raven Cycle Series, The Raven Boys (2012)
„There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.“
— Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
„It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone“
— Anna Comnena, book Alexiad
The Alexiad, Preface
„The black earth drinks, in turn
The trees drink up the earth.
The sea the torrents drinks, the sun the sea,
And the moon drinks the sun.
Why, comrades, do ye flout me,
If I, too, wish to drink?“
— Anacreon Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns -570 - -485 BC
Odes, 21.
„I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.“
— Pablo Neruda, book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
„The importance of oaks both in the economy and in the forest ecosystem is big, but the exceptional part is that this tree plays in the old beliefs and legends.“
— Marek Żukow-Karczewski Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961
Oak - the king of the Polish trees, "Aura" 9, 1988-09, p. 20-21. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-72dccf88-5430-4d92-8617-9f550865d9b9?q=1dac2329-67be-4b51-b5b3-4554b1ebe953$15&qt=IN_PAGE
„I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe American artist 1887 - 1986
„Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.“
— Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940 - 2011
Speech at Goldman Awards, San Francisco (24 April 2006)
„Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?“
— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC
„Just before twenty-first March, 1953, seven days before, I stopped working on myself. A moment comes when you see the whole futility of effort. You have done all that you can do and nothing is happening. You have done all that is humanly possible. Then what else can you do? In sheer helplessness one drops all search. And the day the search stopped, the day I was not seeking for something, the day I was not expecting something to happen, it started happening. A new energy arose — out of nowhere. It was not coming from any source. It was coming from nowhere and everywhere. It was in the trees and in the rocks and the sky and the sun and the air — it was everywhere. And I was seeking so hard, and I was thinking it is very far away. And it was so near and so close.“
— Rajneesh Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931 - 1990
The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)
„There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.“
— Bob Ross American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942 - 1995
„A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.“
— Marcus Garvey Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur 1887 - 1940
Though often attributed to Garvey, this statement first appears in Charles Siefert's 1938 pamphlet, The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art.
Misattributed
„I come to make song, after the tears.
And even if a choir of men
sprayed my tongue with silence,
poetry will come, with liberating voice,
to make my song fall from the trees
and reach the most deeply buried abysses of those tears
that the child lent me when crying himself into life.Because my infant song
is stronger than man’s tears,
and it could even conquer me
robbing the need of tears from the sun and the wind.“
— Juan Antonio Villacañas Spanish poet, essayist and critic 1922 - 2001
"New Songs for After the Tears", from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)