“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco
The Fratricides (1964)
Source: Report to Greco
“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
Variant: I speak for the trees!
Source: The Lorax
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“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Source: Fireflies
“I swear, there is in me no wizardry of word.
I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
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.”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 9