A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him. . . . The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.
in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?
The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.
I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.
Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it. " -Fang
You can't see the forest for the trees.
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down
I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!
"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors. "
How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.