Cheerful Trees

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican Saying

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

Scenery is fine but human nature is finer. - John Keats

Where does the white go when the snow melts? - Hugh Kieffer

The righteous will flourish like the palm tree. - Psalms 92:12

The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. - George William Curtis

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. - Cameroon Proverb

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery. - Dejan Stojanovic

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Drive fast and join the scenery. - Douglas Horton

I ordered a bed from IKEA and they sent me a tree trunk and a saw. - Eileen Curtright

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. - Phyllis Diller

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

Someone told me I was immature. Guess who's not allowed in my tree house now? - Unknown

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez

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

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

There's one good thing about snow: it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer M. Rilke

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran

We breathe air, trees make air, homework kills trees, therefore homework is going to kill us all. - Unknown

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

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

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte