Walter Scott Quotes

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

I have about 1,700 species of trees, almost everything that can grow in our climate.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

Rome was not built in one day.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Patience is emotional diligence.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.