Tree of Life Quotes: Symbolic Wisdom and Inspiration

I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. – George Nakashima

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. – John Muir

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. – Robert H. Schuller

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life. – Akiane Kramarik

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. – Khalil Gebran

Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there’s life after death. – Sayings

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged. – Simon Conway Morris

Art is the Tree of Life, Science is the Tree of Death. – William Blake

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life. – Akiane Kramarik

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people. – Bryce Nelson

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive. – Terrence Malick

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life. – Akiane Kramarik

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. – Willa Cather

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps. – Simon Conway Morris

Trees give peace to the souls of men. – Nora Waln

Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. – Henry Ward Beecher

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees. – Theodore Roosevelt

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

The tree of life may have a thousand leaves but all these leaves are the same tree. – Wald Wassermann

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies. – Bob Dylan

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. – Albert Einstein

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree! – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. – Herman Hesse

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. – Alice Walker

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. – Rabindranath Tagore

We’re just a dot on the Hills Tree on this crazy planet. – Soroosh Shahrivar

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree. – Constantin Brancusi

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. – Willa Cather

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged. – Simon Conway Morris

Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day. – Shira Tamir

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees. – Theodore Roosevelt

He who plants a tree, plants a hope. – Lucy Larcom

The world citizen is a small leaf on the tree of life. – Suzy Kassem

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. – Wendell Berry

The trees are God’s great alphabet: with them he writes in shining green across the world his thoughts serene. – Leonora Speyer

We spring from one great tree of life; when the root of the tree is watered with love, we all thrive. – Janet Autherine

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees. – Ziggy Marley

He that plants trees, loves others besides himself. – Thomas Fuller

The death of the forest is the end of our life. – Dorothy Stang

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst. – Marge Kennedy

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world. – DANIEL WEBSTER

There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children – one is roots, and the other, wings. – Hodding S. Carter

The axe forgets what the tree remembers. – African Proverbs

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. – Woody Allen

Those who forget their past are destined to repeat it. – Robert A. Heinlein

If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. – MICHAEL CRICHTON

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell. – Louisa May Alcott

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people are like trees – they take forever to grow up. – Leslie Hillman

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. – Alexander Pope

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln

How beautiful leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. – John Burrough