tree quotes....

 

 “Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'.” 

― Santosh Kalwar

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

― John Muir

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

-- William Blake

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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, The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die

“Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”

― Andrea Koehle Jones, The Wish Trees

 

The story of the deer mother...

The Story of the Deer Mother