Tree Quotes As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.     Woody Allen You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.     Saint Bernard I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.     Willa Cather Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.     Charles Dickens Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.     Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider He that plants trees loves others beside himself.     Thomas Fuller There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.     Oliver Wendell Holmes I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.     Joyce Kilmer The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.     Moliere I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.     Ogden Nash Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.     Pericles He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.     Sir Walter Scott He plants trees to benefit another generation.     Caecilius Statius You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.     Publilius Syrus Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.     Bill Vaughan Previous Subject - Travel | Next Subject - Trust