Tree

"In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others."

"If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish."

"From a withered tree, a flower blooms."

"The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree."

"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right."

"We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men."

"I never saw a discontented tree."

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

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves."

"I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive."

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."

"So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down."