Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries it's just what happens with this being, now.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.