BEAUTIFUL IMAGES & IDEAS ABOUT TREES NOW

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

-- Pablo Neruda

...every year one day comes, when, although there is no obvious change in the appearance of trees and hedges, the Earth seems to breathe and it is spring.

-- Elizabeth Clarke, The Darkening Green

A tree falls the way it leans.

-- Bulgarian proverb

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

If we surrendered

to earth’s intelligence

we could rise up rooted, like trees.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

-- Khalil Gibran

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

-- Martin Luther

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

 

-- Warren Buffett

 

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

-- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

Alone with myself

The trees bend to caress me

The shade hugs my heart

 

-- Candy Polgar

 

Read more about Beautiful Trees, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact.

 

IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Eric Malette. Fraser Bay Stay: Sky-Lit Tree For My Wifey.
2. Image: by Neil Roger. Spring Trees. In the Village of Garvald East Lothian Scotland.
3. Image: by Ben. Slope Point.
4. Image: by Frank Schulenburg. Cypress Tree Avenue at KPH, Point Reyes.
5. Image: by Jonathan. The Magnificent Tree of Life.
6. Image: Courtesy of the Hadley-Ives Family. A Bristlecone Pine snag up in the White Mountains of California.
7. Image: by FIRAT SOLA. One Tree That Binds Us All.
8. Image: by Steffen.R. Old Tree.
9. Image: by Kirt Edblom. Up to the Heavens.
10. Image: by *Psyche Delia*. Path Through the Woods.
11. Image: by John Talbot. Flowering Fruit Tree.
12. Image: by Steve Jurvetson. Spring Has Sprung.
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Vishal Patel. Look Up.