Quotes about Maple Trees

Geddy Lee

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade?

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream, "oppression"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Hal Borland

Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.

Lucy Larcom

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

In 1791 the United States imported most of its sugar. Then Secretary of State Jefferson had studied the Sugar-Maple tree and had corresponded with President and fellow farmer George Washington about its prospects. Jefferson proposed to an assemblage of Vermonters a new cash crop which became a major New England industry.

Hannah Teter

Maple syrup makes you strong!

Henry Ward Beecher

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Bliss Carman

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Maple Trees Quotes