388 Tree Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. Clive Anderson

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better. Daniel H. Pink

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I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents. Danny Meyer

Christmas Family Christmas Tree Tree Our Had Bottom Idea Names Judaism Up Louis Reform St. Louis Grew Bar Grandparents Skirt Jewish

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. Dave Eggers

Tree Bathroom Window Small Through Tall Yard December Gray

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. David A. Siegel

Tree Bought Yacht Island Even Palm

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. David Lynch

Love Christmas You Painting Christmas Tree Tree Back Out Plug Putting Got Replaced Burns Them Paintings Each Each One Rig Started

No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. David Thewlis

Beautiful Matter Tree Pleasing Finds Temporarily Never Looks Just Really

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people. Dennis Kucinich

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. Dennis Rodman

Old Tree Feet Like Branches

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it. Dermot Mulroney

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones. Diane Ackerman

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I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed. Donald Hall

Happy Weather Tree Guards Point Rats Feed Stuff Fair Cheek Leap Frighten Squirrels Agility Porch

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. Donella Meadows

You Destruction Tree Issue Cutting Should

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him. Dorothea Dix

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II. Douglas Brunt

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If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? Douglas Coupland

You Tree Hater Then

I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary. Douglas Trumbull

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When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes. Drake Bell

Clothes Tree Eating Over Stump Commercial Did Sitting

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through. Drew Barrymore

Day Spiritual Girl Before Tree State One Day Unbelievable Eating Through Like Know California Sushi Place Might Then Groovy

I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful. Drew Barrymore

Heart Think Tree Finding Wrapper Powerful Like Passing Line Continuous Very Hearts Whether Which Ground Straw Things Started

'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.' Duff McKagan

Life My Life Tree Making Soundtrack Were Appetite

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. Eddie Vedder

Music Family Relationship You Passion Job Holding Tree Once Visible Hurricane About Above Betrayed Onto Never Highly Like Became Real Dear Were Commerce Real Passion Held Your Even Thing Palm

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon. Eden Robinson

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