Trees Matter Quotes

“There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly...survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful...”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Trees are the ambassadors of patience.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that will be the end of the bubblegum tree - forever'.
Nobody said anything. Billy thought that he had never heard such a sad story before. Surely somebody could do something before the bubblegum trees before it was too late.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Explosive Adventures

“I felt the bark of the trees on either side of me as I walked. I could reach out with my fingertips and touch their bark as I passed. The skin of the trees was warm in the sunlight, and rough, and I imagined that each tree contained a soul.”
― Ned Hayes, The Eagle Tree

“And this tree, now I am looking at is equally stubborn as me. Freezing rain, and howling wind. No, they can’t shake our spirit. Our future stretches before us and we’re travelling together into it in our own velocity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“And this tree,
now I am looking at
is equally stubborn as me.
Freezing rain, and howling wind.
No, they can’t shake our spirit.
Our future stretches before us
and we’re travelling together into it
at our velocity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Trees do mourn the loss of their leaves. This fall, take a moment to listen to their mourning and observe how easily they overcome it as they make way for new leaves to sprout for the joy that spring will bring.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Listen to the language of the trees
they speak in silence
learn that alphabet.”
― Christina Strigas, love & gaia