Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

Beyond a doubt there are enough maples to produce sugar adequate to the consumption of every American and some Europeans too …. Attention to sugar orchards is essentially necessary to the independence of our country.

Maple syrup makes you strong!

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.

"One impulse from a vernal wood

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.

Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.

In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

The tree is but a huge boquet.