Cheerful Trees

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

The apple will fall under the apple tree. - Greek Proverb

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. - Katrina Mayer

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree. - Vagabond

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. - John Rhys-Davies

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Drive fast and join the scenery. - Douglas Horton

I ordered a bed from IKEA and they sent me a tree trunk and a saw. - Eileen Curtright

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

She walked across the ballroom as if she were trudging through deep snow. - Noel Coward

The trees in Siberia are miles apart - that's why the dogs are so fast. - Bob Hope

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

Someone told me I was immature. Guess who's not allowed in my tree house now? - Unknown

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. - Eleanor of Aquitaine

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees. - Steven Magee

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. - Haruki Murakami

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

There's one good thing about snow: it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. - Margaret Atwood

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice M Swaim

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

He that climbs the tall tree has won the right to the fruit; he that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Walter Scott

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. - Criss Jami

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

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte