Cheerful Trees

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

Scenery is fine but human nature is finer. - John Keats

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

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

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere

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

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

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

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery. - Dejan Stojanovic

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. - Neil Diamond

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. - George Eliot

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer M. Rilke

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Unknown

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - James H. Jeans

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton

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 key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. - Louise Nurding

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

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