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• “Trees have long been my metaphor, symbolic of my inner and outer growth—the taproot delving deep into my conscious and subconscious, the origins of my art, life, and family; peripheral roots branching out into other communities, cultures, a cosmos of interweaving inter- actions; a trunk and branches reaching up and out beyond their tips, leaves, fruit, falling here and there.”

  Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.

• “We must perform cleansing rites. Make the necessary sacrifices. We must replant our huge trees that have been uprooted, replenish our sacred forests that have been decimated.”

  Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That's why they [viruses] are not in the tree of life. They don't relate in a very direct way. ...[T]he tree of life now is not only about ribosomes. You can build trees from whole genomes, but viral genomes? They don't really fit in, in a way which makes sense to people.”

  Nick Lane (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Give the vote to non-EU citizens? A civilized country cannot make bingo-bongos vote who until a few years ago were still in the trees. (quoted in Calderoli, se questo è un minister, L'espresso, June 22, C.E.2010)”

  Roberto Calderoli (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We want to ensure that trees are planted in all new developments,”

  Christine Mukabunani (born 1972) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: PS Imberakuri Outlines Vision for Environmental Protection in Upcoming Elections Kigali Times ( July 11, 2024)

• “The trees are perhaps the only ones who know the mystery of water in depth. (May 22, C.E.1897; Vergani, p. 124)”

  Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Stage is real, it is live, it is different, if you want to do part of bush, you will have to cut trees and put it there.”

  Lanre Hassan (born 1950) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lanre on stage in 2013

• “All of us, no matter whether noble or not, have our own family trees. (Prologue)”

  Margo Glantz (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Trees hold their living energy in a specially vivid and visual image of design: forest and clearing, root and branch, seed and fruit, spring and autumn, each tells the rhythm of a balanced and cyclical harmony.”

  E. Graham Howe (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As cited by Altman, Nathaniel (1994). Sacred Trees. Sierra Club Books. p. 4.

• “Let me grow lovely, growing old— So many fine things do: Laces, and ivory, and gold, And silks need not be new;And there is healing in old trees. Old streets a glamour hold: Why may not I, as well as these, Grow lovely, growing old?”

  Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Let Me Grow Lovely", in The Salisbury Post (April 11, 1923), p. 4

• “That project was already well underway when I first came to the Zone. Hidden in all the budgetary overspends and the trees. But I became a part of it. And as for Why? When a conglomerate of future-minded corporations gives you a bottomless well of untraceable funds and a team of top scientists with no scruples at all, it becomes all very, Because it’s there.”

  Adrian Tchaikovsky (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Really these streets and trees, almost the clean air I breathed here were: RESERVED FOR EUROPEANS ONLY. I was the intruder. And like the intruder, I walked carefully lest I be discovered. I longed for what the white folk had. I envied them their superior European lot”

  Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was around midday but it might as well have been midnight, with us canvassing for clues in the light of a full moon — the canopy of the ancient trees let in an annoying in-between light, too low to see well in, yet too bright for flashlights.”

  Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The razor crackled and filled with stubble as I dragged it across valleys and ridges. Birds chirped fussily in the tallest gray-skinned mtuba trees. They jumped up and down on one branch.”

  Moses Isegawa (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Amari loved the rusty brown dirt of Ziavi. The path, hard-packed from thousands of bare feet that had trod on it for decades, was flanked on both sides by fat, fruit-laden mango trees, the sweet smell of which always seemed to welcome her home.”

  Sharon M. Draper (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “...look around you, this is the jungle, you got bushes and trees everywhere, in my country nothing grows.”

  Nadifa Mohamed (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Like the pine trees lining the winding road, I've got a name, I've got a name. Like the singin' bird and the croakin' toad, I've got a name, I've got a name.And I carry it with me like my daddy did, But I'm livin' the dream that he kept hid.Movin' me down the highway, rollin' me down the highway, Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by.”

  Jim Croce (1943–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A river cannot flow into the forest without bringing down the trees.”

  Braimah Kamoko (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We need to strive and strike so hard economically to make sure our people get back to where they belong - the food basket of Uganda. Things like over drinking, careless cutting down of trees, gender based violence.”

  Beatrice Akello Akori (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It would take an enormous crew of experts to determine the efficiency of different orientations of windows, different arrangements of shade trees, etc... To ignore these efforts and only to reward the purchase of "off the shelf hardware" is to further the disease of narrow minded quantification.”

  Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You found pictures of maize on the trees to remind people that if you did not vote for Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), then you wanted to prolong the colonial rule in Uganda.”

  Cecilia Ogwal (1946–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “remnant of the colonial legacy standing amongst stunted acacia trees and withered shrubs of solanum. The stunts of sparse grass surrounding the base were too brittle for cattle to graze on - too brittle even for camels.”

  Lily Mabura (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When trees did bud and fields were green, And broom bloom’d fair to see, When Mary was complete fifteen, And love laugh’d in her ee, Blythe Davie’s blinks her heart did move To speak her mind thus free: Gang doun the burn, Davie love, An’ I will follow thee.”

  Robert Crawford (Scottish poet, died 1733) first seen 1854 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Doun the Burn, Davie", st. 1, in The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs, 2nd ed. (1854), p. 54

• “If you walk around the district nowadays you will see so many people coming down the mountains carrying charcoal and firewood, and when I see this I ask myself if we will have trees in time to come,” wondered Mutharika.”

  Gertrude Maseko (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees, ... Ye, vastest breathers of the air, Shook down with slow and mighty poise Your coolness on the human care, Your wonder on its toys, Your greenness on the heart's despair, Your darkness on its noise.”

  Herbert Trench (1865–1923) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees", in New Poems (London: Meuthuen & Co., 1907), p. 54

• “Felling big is dangerous work, especially when the tops of the mighty trees are entangled with creepers.”

  Richard St. Barbe Baker (1889–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Trees tell us a lot about climate and ecological history, because they are the oldest living things on the planet and can live up to 4000 years.”

  Aster Afwork Gebrekirstos (born 1901) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Trees are like people. Some species, some are opportunists. In good times they spend and grow like crazy. Some really conservative they grow better in difficult years. And the conservative tree could better cope with climate change.”

  Aster Afwork Gebrekirstos (born 1901) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the Big Rock Candy Mountains There's a land that's fair and bright Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.”

  Harry McClintock (1882–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It appears to be hieroglyphic or ideographic in form. Human, animal and floral figurines are readily recognizable, multiple dashes probably represent numbers , while such objects as wheels, bows and arrows , and trees very likely represent themselves - it would seem that they are not phonetic symbols.”

  Walter Fairservis (1921–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quoted in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.

• “On the isle of Pago Pago, land of palm trees, rice and sago, Where the Chinaman and Dago dwell with natives dusky hued, Lived a dissolute and shady, bold adventuress named Sadie, Sadie Thompson was the lady, and the life she lived was lewd.”

  Newman Levy (1888–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Christ Jesus, when I come to die Grant me a clean, sweet, summer sky, Without the mad wind's panther cry. Send me a little garden breeze To gossip in magnolia trees; For I have heard, these fifty years, Confessions muttered at my ears, Till every mumble of the wind Is like tired voices that have sinned.”

  Hervey Allen (1889–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “... has no place beneath the trees nor where the fresh winds blow. Hunt and be hunted is the rule of wild life.”

  Frances Pitt (1888–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It's like the devil just shit me out into this weird, like, Mars planet where there's palm trees and old people”

  Stassi Schroeder (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “At one time trees were , principally to provide fuel. Such are the famous , ... pollarded from about 1500 to 1820, when the use of became general; such, too are the numerous pollards in .”

  Miles Hadfield (1903–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “An average produces about five s of debris per per year. The get through this mountain of raw by sheer numbers. Fungi make up about 10% of the weight of living matter () in a wood. They are the weightiest component of all, bar the trees. You would require a convoy of dump trucks to remove the fungi of just a small copse. Yet all we see of them are their scattered in autumn.”

  Peter Marren (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: (272 pages; 1st edition 2012)

• “is a large genus of which one of the best known species is , a destructive parasite of , but including also species parasitic on economically valuable trees, such as , and many s.”

  Lilian Hawker (1908–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The late , a Sydney printer and skilled and deservedly respected ornithologist, considered the to breed rarely in in his early days (born in 1904, he died in 1971). But in later years he recorded that some birds were always present and breeding. It seems likely that, in part at least, this change reflected the planting of flowering trees and shrubs in Sydney gardens.”

  Graham Pizzey (1930–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The , as it is sometimes called, lives in damp woods, where it can find plenty of insects. It catches them on the wing, as well as picking them off plants and trees. Its colouring is grey above with black streaks on its head; its breast is yellow, with a row of black marks across it, set like a ’s . Its song is louder than that of most s, but very sweet and clear.”

  Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (1857–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As I became more tuned into trees, I began to admire the enormous near the path to the . I even oriented the entrance of the outhouse so that I could gaze at this tall, furrowed tree while sitting there. It was much better than reading .”

  Anne LaBastille (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “During my morning trek, two of the striking differences between and s became evident. Any 5 s around my cabin in the , or in New England woods, may have 10 to 12 kinds of trees growing; yet, here in the same-sized area, an average of 200 species can be found!”

  Anne LaBastille (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My name is Onnophrius, and for sixty years I have lived in this solitary place and desert. I walk in the mountains like the wild beasts, and I live on the plants and trees, and I have not seen anyone I know.”

  Onuphrius (320–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The prowling, restless elephant, ... though rarely seen, leaves indications of his nocturnal excursions in every wilderness, by wantonly knocking down the forest-trees. The morose rhinoceros, though less numerous, are found in every thick jungle. So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble.”

  John Hanning Speke (1827–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Up the reputable walks of old established trees They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes Of the tall Clock Tower drench their heads in blessing.”

  W. D. Snodgrass (1926–2009) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Campus on the Hill", l. 1. Heart's Needle (1959), p. 34

• “Though trees turn bare and girls turn wives, We shall afford our costly seasons; There is a gentleness survives That will outspeak and has its reasons. There is a loveliness exists, Preserves us, not for specialists.”

  W. D. Snodgrass (1926–2009) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: April Inventory", st. 10. Heart's Needle (1959), p. 39

• “Hand pick the s where you can and use bait. A barrier of lime on the soil around trees will keep snails away. s are named for their sooty black spore mass. They are important on grains and grasses, not too common on . Corn and onion smuts appear in backyard gardens.”

  Cynthia Westcott (1898–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Like an isle rose Monticello through the cooled and rippling trees, Like an isle in rippling starlight in the silence of the seas. Ceased the mocking-bird his singing; said the slaves with faltering breath, "'Tis the Third, and on the morrow Heaven will send the Angel Death.”

  Hezekiah Butterworth (1839–1905) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Death of Jefferson", st. 1. Songs of History (Boston: New England Publishing Co., 1887) p. 97

• “Trees are so important to our environment - they cool urban areas, provide shelter & food for native species & absorb loads of carbon.”

  Murray Watt (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I wanted to be an entomologist since I was about 8 years old “I saw all the trees getting ruined by these caterpillars. My father used a chemical to kill them on a prized dogwood outside the kitchen window [but] it killed all the good bugs – lady beetles, lacewings, honeybees and so forth.”

  Pamela Marrone wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our target is to plant a million trees within the next five years.”

  Jennifer Musisi (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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