tree quotes

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

Abraham Lincoln

Me Tree Will Down First

"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

Shadow Character Tree Reputation

"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."

Abraham Lincoln

Man Fruit Tree Day

"I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?"

A. Balasubramaniam

Truth World Tree Reality

"Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up."

Good Me Tree Feet

"I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth."

Abbas Kiarostami

Fruit Tree Grateful Duty

"With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is."

Growth Tree Humanity Action

"Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble."

You Tree Consistency Neighbor

"Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree."

Tree Forever Someone Carve

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

Adlai Stevenson I

Tree Hypocrite Who Politician

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