Hogarth Hughes: [picking up a rock] See this? This is called a rock. Rock. The Iron Giant: [a little rusty] Rock. Hogarth Hughes: Good. The Iron Giant: [picks up a boulder] Rock? Hogarth Hughes: Yes! The Iron Giant: [picks up a tree] Rock. Hogarth Hu...
[sounds of trees 'speaking' is heard] Aragorn: Gimli, lower your axe. Legolas: They have feelings, my friend. The elves began it, waking up the trees, teaching them to speak. Gimli: Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the c...
Great trees are envied by the wind.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
The tree makes shafts for axes.
Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love.
A tree falls the way it leans.
But if God is the trees and the flowers And the hills and the moonlight and the sun, Why should I call him God? I call him flowers and trees and hills and sun and moonlight; Because if he made himself for me to see As the sun and moonlight and flower...
You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind?
The best trees grow on the steepest hills.
A big tree attracts the wind.
No one can climb a tree with no branches.
A good tree bears good fruit.
The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.
Large trees are envied by the wind.
The tallest tree is rooted in the ground.
