If you are seeking some of the most insightful sayings, proverbs, and quotes about trees, you’ve come to the right place! 🌲
Below, you will find some of the most loving, inspiring, spiritual, extraordinary, and beautiful quotes about trees that allow every single person on Earth to live.
Side note: If I have missed any iconic or must-have quotes about trees, please share them below and I will be sure to include it on this list! 😃
67+ Insightful Quotes About Trees!
1. “From little seeds grow mighty trees.” – Unknown
2. “In trees, I see expression and soul.” – Vincent Van Gogh
3. “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton
4. “All our wisdom is stored in the trees.” – Santosh Kalwar
5. “Trees’re always a relief, after people.” – David Mitchell
6. “Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains.” – Bill Mollison
7. “Time spent among trees is never wasted time.” – Katrina Mayer
8. “Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.” – Henry Ward Beecher
9. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
10. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Molière
11. “This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.” – Carl Sagan
12. “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller
Famous Quotes About Trees
13. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir
14. “Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.” – Frances Perkins
15. “Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” – Emily Carr
16. “On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” – W.S. Merwin
17. “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.” – Maggie Stiefvater
18. “Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.” – Karen Joy Fowler
19. “When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.” – Jodi Thomas
20. “Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.” – Proverb
21. “Learn character from trees, value from roots and change from leaves.” – Tasneem Hameed
22. “Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.” – J.K. Rowling
23. “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” – Zora Neale Hurston
24. “All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.” – Donald Miller
25. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” – Rabindranath Tagore
26. “To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.” – Russell Page
27. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Proverb
28. “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
29. “The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well.” – Unknown
30. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
31. “Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.” – Sara Ebenreck
32. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
33. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
34. “If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.” – Lao Tzu
35. “Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?” – Walt Whitman
36. “Listen to the wisdom of trees. Trees know that you can be still and grow at the same time.” – Unknown
Inspiring Quotes About Trees
37. “We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.” – Everett Mamor
38. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
39. “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” – Victor Hugo
40. “I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” – Willa Cather
41. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland
42. “And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.” – Ram Dass
43. “If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn’t it just lie there and rot?” – Chuck Palahniuk
44. “I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.” – Louise Dickinson Rich
45. “A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.” – Theodore Roosevelt
46. “The trees are God’s great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green. Across the world, His thoughts serene.” – Leonora Speyer
47. “A tree lives by its roots. Change the roots and you change the tree. Change the trees and you change the forest.” – Unknown
48. “When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future for our children.” – Wangari Maathai
49. “In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” – Paulo Coelho
50. “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” – Wangari Maathai
51. “Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” – Kahlil Gebran
52. “Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.” – Deng Ming-Dao
53. “Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.” – Susan Fenimore Cooper
54. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
55. “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” – Jack Handey
56. “The trees are whispering to me, reminding me of my roots, and my reach… shhhhhh… can you hear them? Selflessly sharing their subtle song.” – Jeb Dickerson
57. “Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.” – Munia Khan
Quotes About Trees For Nature Lovers
58. “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” – John Muir
59. “Every year one day comes, when, although there is no obvious change in the appearance of trees and hedges, the Earth seems to breathe and it is spring.” – Elizabeth Clarke
60. “Millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels – who bury nuts, then forget where they hid them. Do good and forget. It’ll grow some day.” – Proverb
61. “Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.” – Gaston Bachelard
62. “To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
63. “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth since we are made of earth and rain.” – Pablo Neruda
64. “I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.” – May Sarton
65. “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” – Herman Hesse
66. “Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.” – John Muir
67. “People say that I’m a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that’s really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I’m an air breather, I’ve gotten used to that over the years.” – Robin Williams