Trees

GIF from Ann Marie (Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

• The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.--Chinese proverb
• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.--Hal Borland
• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?--E. M. Forster 
• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.--Rabindranath Tagore 
• Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.--Emily Carr
• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.--Wangari Maathai 
• I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.--Edward Steichen  
• In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.--Alice Walker
• To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.--Leonardo da Vinci
• It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.--Robert Louis Stevenson
• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.--Winston Churchill
• The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.--Douglas Adams
• a wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. i think, i too, have known autumn too long.--e. e. cummings